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noun
Lutheranism and continental Calvinism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Contemporary Protestant movement based on energetic proselytism and a renewed focus on the Bible and in the belief in its inerrancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Christian fundamentalism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: imprecise
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noun
Islamic movements which are based on preaching and proselytism (dawah).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: by analogy
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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noun
stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Protestantism
Narrower terms: revivalism
History
Etymology tree English evangelical Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English evangelicalism From evangelical + -ism.
Across languages
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