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evangelist (s) (noun), evangelists (pl)
1. A religious person who travels from place to place to preach or a missionary; a revivalist or a promoter, organizer, or preacher at a religious revival meeting; especially, one for christians.
2. In the Mormon Church, a patriarch.
3. Etymology: the original sense of evangelist was "writer of a gospel"; from Greek euaggelion; and from Latin evangelium which in classical times meant "reward for bringing good news" based on the prefix eu-, "good, well" and aggelos "messenger" which is the source angel.
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