Meanings
- obsoletegood tidings, or evangel.
Above all, the Servians […] read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.
1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Maurocordato and Colocotroni”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Frenchévangile
- Englishevangile
Borrowed from French évangile. See evangel.
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