evangely

English

Etymology

From ecclesiastical Latin evangelium.

Noun

evangely (countable and uncountable, plural evangelies)

1. (obsolete) The "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     […] good Lucius, / That first receiued Christianitie, / The sacred pledge of Christes Euangely […]

2. (obsolete) One of the four Gospels.