evangelicalism
(iːvæn-, ɛvænˈdʒɛlɪkəˌlɪz(ə)m)
[f. prec. + -ism.]
The doctrines and modes of thought peculiar to the Evangelical party; adherence to that party.
| 1831 Edin. Rev. LIII. 305 We have always thought that the worst things about Evangelicalism were its exclusiveness, etc. 1871–2 Geo. Eliot Middlem. xvi. (D.), Evangelicalism had cast a certain suspicion as of plague-infection over the few amusements which survived in the provinces. 1884 A. M. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 371 An age weary of a hard and pragmatic evangelicalism. |