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English
Etymology
From evangel + -ship.
Noun
evangelship (uncountable)
- The condition of being an evangel (evangelist).
- 1842, Thomas Bilson (successively Bishop of Worcester and of Winchester), The Perpetual Gouernement of Christes Church: a new edition, with a biographical notice, by Robert Eden, page 387:
- ... and not to Timothy and Titus in respect of their evangelship, as the presbyterists affirm; then can there be no question but this new discipline is a very dream,
1873, David Thomas, The genius of the gospel; a homiletical commentary on the Gospel of st. Matthew, ed. by W. Webster, page 148:We infer, therefore, that Christian discipleship is a necessary qualification for Christian evangelship. But what of Judas? Was he a true disciple? Yet was he not one of the apostles? His case was, confessedly, an exception to our principle ...