evangely
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ecclesiastical Latin evangelium.
Noun[edit]
evangely (countable and uncountable, plural evangelies)
- (obsolete) The "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] good Lucius, / That first receiued Christianitie, / The sacred pledge of Christes Euangely […]
- (obsolete) One of the four Gospels.