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Gospel
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- 1 The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus. countable, uncountable
- 2 Alternative form of gospel. alt-of, alternative
- 3 a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance wordnet
- 4 An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era. countable, uncountable
- 5 the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings wordnet
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- 6 The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments. countable, uncountable
- 7 an unquestionable truth wordnet
- 8 A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles. countable, uncountable
"Spreading the gospel of dental hygiene in Vermont"
- 9 the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group wordnet
- 10 That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive). uncountable
"took her words for gospel"
- 11 folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) wordnet
- 12 Gospel music. uncountable
- 1 To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise. transitive
"Are you so gospelled, to pray for this good man and for his issue, whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave and beggared yours forever?"
Etymology
From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ).
From Middle English gospellen, from Old English godspellian (“to preach the gospel, evangelise”), from the noun (see above).
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