fem. proper name, from French Évangeline, ultimately from Greek evangelion "good news" (see evangelism).
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evangelism n.
1620s, "the preaching of the gospel," from evangel + -ism, or else from Medieval Latin evangelismus "a spreading of the Gospel," from Late Latin evangelium "good news, gospel," from Greek euangelion (see evangelist). In reference to evangelical Protestantism, from 1812.