gospel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Protestantism
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).
Base: God
Inflected forms:
form: gospels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gospels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gospeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gospelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: gospeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: gospeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gospelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gospelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Spreading the gospel of dental hygiene in Vermont
gloss: That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: took her words for gospel
If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Edipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel.
gloss: Gospel music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?
I stood there wondering how often they had “gospeled” each other's hearts like this.
Hopefully you will get to the point where gospeling one another becomes a natural part of your language, and you will not need a set of phrases anymore.
But the very act of “seeing” for anyone—both those within and beyond the fold of Christian communions—is possible only as a gospel being gospeled anew in and through the most pertinent issues of their particular contexts.
Synonyms: evangel
Derived words: antigospel
bluegrass gospel
contemporary gospel
Gin and Gospel Gazette
gospel bird
gospel blues
gospel-blues
gospeler
gospelesque
gospelize
gospeller
gospellike
gospel-like
gospelly
gospelmonger
gospel music
Gospel Oak
gospelphile
gospel side
gospel truth
gospely
gospelypso
infancy gospel
nongospel
prosperity gospel
protogospel
Southern gospel
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