Meanings
plural evangelies
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
[…] good Lucius, / That first receiued Christianitie, / The sacred pledge of Christes Euangely […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC - countableobsoleteuncountableOne of the four Gospels.
Origin
- Latinevangelium
- Englishevangely
From ecclesiastical Latin evangelium.
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