evangelist
noun
evan·ge·list
i-ˈvan-jə-list 
1
often capitalized
: a writer of any of the four Gospels
2
: a person who evangelizes
specifically
: a Protestant minister or layman who preaches at special services
3
: an enthusiastic advocate
an evangelist for physical fitness
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an evangelist of space exploration
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Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 June 2025
Acting as technology evangelists, working one-on-one with customers as trusted advisors.
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Join 4 others in the comments View Comments But having an evangelist in the West Wing seems to be changing that.
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—Michael Pollan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 June 2025
Acting as technology evangelists, working one-on-one with customers as trusted advisors.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Join 4 others in the comments View Comments But having an evangelist in the West Wing seems to be changing that.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
Perhaps the researchers didn’t want to stoke the narrative that some study participants have become advocates, even evangelists, for religious uses of psychedelics.
—Michael Pollan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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evangelist
noun
evan·ge·list
i-ˈvan-jə-ləst
: a Christian preacher who goes about from place to place trying to change or increase people's religious feelings
Etymology
Middle English evangelist "one of the writers of the four Gospels," from early French and Latin evangelista (same meaning), from Greek euangelizein "to preach the gospel," from euangelion "good news, gospel," from eu- "good" and angelos "messenger, angel"
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