EVANGELICALISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("evangelicalism" is a kind of...):

Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evangelicalism"):

revivalism (an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith)

Credits