evangelistic campaign
- noun
- /ˌiːvænˈdʒɛlɪstɪk kæmˈpeɪn/
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campaña evangelística
- At the Sao Paulo meeting, plans were announced for the annual evangelistic campaign to be held during Holy Week at a large public square downtown.
Examples
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Throughout the 1980s, with technical and financial assistance from their counterparts in the United States, Salvadoran churches organized massive evangelistic campaigns aimed at saturating the airwaves and filling soccer stadiums with new converts.
Academic text (1996) -
The church organized an evangelistic campaign to reach more people in the community during the holiday season.
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Even more important than the evangelistic campaigns and the use of mass media were grassroots programs.
Academic text (1996) -
The evangelistic campaign included door-to-door visits to share their message with local residents.
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During the evangelistic campaign, volunteers distributed pamphlets about their beliefs in the city park.
Synonyms
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2.7
A planned set of public actions to win support
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3.4
A place where people work to spread a religion or help others
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6.5
To tell people the Christian message to make them believers
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3.9
Planned activities by religious people to share their faith and help communities
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8.0
Spreading religious beliefs to try to convert people
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9.1
Trying to make someone change their religion or beliefs
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9.9
To try to make other people accept your religion or beliefs
Spreading a religion in new areas by sending people to start churches and schools
A way of trying to make people join a belief by pressuring them
Antonyms
How Persuasive
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4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a direct adjective + noun composition: 'evangelistic' (energetically promoting a cause) modifies 'campaign' (a planned set of activities), so the meaning 'a campaign that energetically promotes or recruits' is directly inferable. Although 'evangelistic' may carry religious or fervent connotations, the overall sense is predictable for a learner who already knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Evangelistic campaign comes from when religious preachers called evangelists travelled to towns and held a series of meetings to 'spread their faith'. That's why the phrase means an organized effort to share religious beliefs.