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English
Etymology
From gospel + -er (occupational suffix). Compare Middle English gospeler (“one of the Gospel writers or Evangelists; statue of one of the Evangelists; (of Old Testament persons) bringer of good news; Isaiah; book containing the Gospels; content of one of the Gospels”), from Old English godspellere.
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gospeler (plural gospelers)
- A person who preaches from the Gospels
- (music) A singer of gospel music
- (obsolete, Early Modern) A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
1549, William Thomas, The historie of Italie , page 85:If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kinde of supersticion to feede vpon. If thou be a gospeller, no man shall aske why thou comest not to churche.
1554 April 8, Nicholas Ridley, “Dr. Ridley late Bishop of London to West, formerly his Steward ”, in John Strype, editor, Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer , published 1694, page 202:You know I have conferred with many, and I ensure you, I never found man, so far as I do remembre, neyther old nor new Gospeller or Papist, of what judgment soever he was, in this thing to be a contrary opinion.
1682, England’s Remembrancer , London: E. Smith, page 152:He for some time kept School at Reading in Barkshire, but after a time being found to be a Gospeller he was forced to fly thence, and repairing to his own Mother, who was a Papist.
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