gospel
Forms
- Plural
- gospels
- present (v1)
- gospel
- 3rd person singular
- gospels
Definitions
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.
2.An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
3.The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
4.A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
1.To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3568
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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).