[f. prec. + -ISM.] The doctrines and modes of thought peculiar to the Evangelical party; adherence to that party.
1831. Edin. Rev., LIII. 305. We have always thought that the worst things about Evangelicalism were its exclusiveness [etc.].
1871–2. Geo. Eliot, Middlem., xvi. (D.). Evangelicalism had cast a certain suspicion as of plague-infection over the few amusements which survived in the provinces.
1884. A. M. Fairbairn, in Contemp. Rev., March, 371. An age weary of a hard and pragmatic evangelicalism.
