hot gospeller
[hot a. 6.]
An abusive nickname for a zealous Protestant or Puritan, esp. a revivalist preacher. Also transf. Hence hot gospelling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; hot-gospel v. trans. and intr.
| 1562 E. Underhill in Narr. Days Reform. (Camd. Soc.) 159, I was also callede ‘the hoote gospellar’, jestynge and mokynge me, saynge ‘he is alle off the sprete’. 1874 Motley Barneveld I. vii. 330 Those hot gospellers. 1875 Tennyson Q. Mary 271 There are Hot Gospellers even among our guards. 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. viii. 71 That terrible old Hot Gospeller who..screams undying hate of all institutions. 1923 W. S. Churchill World Crisis 1911–14 ii. 29 Like Henry VIII, he [sc. A. J. Balfour] decapitated Papists and burned hot Gospellers on the same day for their respective divergencies..from his..compromise. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 107, I do not think..I can fairly be accused of advocating hot-gospelling or holy-roaring as the short road to good writing. Ibid. 275 He has made me bold, not to say thrasonical. I am become a hot-gospeller, a crusader. Dr. Henry Bradley himself is timid and lukewarm compared to me. 1931 R. Lehmann Let. to Sister 9 Do you remember that frothing hot-gospelling temperance-man?..He told them how he himself had found salvation when going upstairs late one night—drunk, he manfully admitted. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 713/1 The hot-gospeller Spooner marries the thin-lipped Harriet. 1952 R. Campbell Lorca i. 7 Every sub-poetaster is hot-gospelling world-messages. 1955 A. L. Rowse Expansion Eliz. Eng. ix. 331 The hot-gospelling of Knox and the spread of Calvinism. 1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 124/3 Mr. Dulles's hot-gospelling speech. 1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai vi. 110 In the true..hot-gospelling tradition, he ladled out the brimstone. 1968 Times 6 Nov. 3/4 The hot-gospeller H. H. Nininger, who preached the value and importance of meteorites. 1970 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Mar. 47/1 He was not hot-gospelling for pop or for the American way of life. 1972 Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 11/3 The film..is ‘Marjoe’, a..deeply cynical documentary on the American weakness for hot-gospelling revivalists. |