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evangelisch

evangelisch

Dutch

Adjective

evangelisch (not comparable)

  1. evangelical

Inflection

Inflection of evangelisch
uninflected evangelisch
inflected evangelische
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial evangelisch
indefinite m./f. sing. evangelische
n. sing. evangelisch
plural evangelische
definite evangelische
partitive evangelisch

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

evangelisch (comparative evangelischer, superlative am evangelischsten)

  1. (Christianity) evangelical (pertaining to the gospel)
  2. (Christianity, Protestantism) Lutheran
  3. (Christianity, Protestantism) pertaining to “orthodoxProtestantism in German-speaking Europe, including also the traditional Calvinist (“Reformed”) and Lutheran-Calvinist (“United”) churches

Usage notes

  • The German adjective does not refer to the contemporary, originally American, Protestant movement, for which see evangelikal.
  • The best English translation for sense 3 is probably just “Protestant”, even if this latter is somewhat imprecise.

Declension