evangile
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French évangile. See evangel.
Noun
evangile
- (obsolete) good tidings, or evangel.
- 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Maurocordato and Colocotroni”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:
- Above all, the Servians […] read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.
References
- “evangile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.