evangelship

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noun

The condition of being an evangel (evangelist).

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounevangelship (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe condition of being an evangel (evangelist).

    ... and not to Timothy and Titus in respect of their evangelship, as the presbyterists affirm; then can there be no question but this new discipline is a very dream, …

    1842, Thomas Bilson (successively Bishop of Worcester and of Winchester), The Perpetual Gouernement of Christes Church: a new edition, with a biographical notice, by Robert Eden, page 387
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    We infer, therefore, that Christian discipleship is a necessary qualification for Christian evangelship. But what of Judas? Was he a true disciple? Yet was he not one of the apostles? His case was, confessedly, an exception to our principle ...

    1873, David Thomas, The genius of the gospel; a homiletical commentary on the Gospel of st. Matthew, ed. by W. Webster, page 148

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