a. and sb. [f. EVANGELIC + -AN.]

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  A.  adj. = EVANGELICAL A. 2 b.

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1847.  De Quincey, Protestantism, Wks. (1862), VII. 100. Distinguishing between the Romanist and the Newmanite, on the one hand, between the Calvinist and the Evangelican man, on the other.

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  B.  sb. = EVANGELICAL B. 2.

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1876.  Mivart, Contemp. Evolution, 116. The heartfelt piety of the evangelican protest against the cold formalism of the established clergy of that time.

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  Hence Evangelicanism = EVANGELICALISM.

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1887.  Benham, Dict. Relig., 412. Evangelicanism is essentially the theology of the inner life of the individual soul.

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