gospeler

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Etymology

gospel + -er (occupational suffix). Compare Middle English gospeler (one of the Gospel writers or Evangelists; statue of one of the Evangelists; (of Old Testament persons) bringer of good news; Isaiah; book containing the Gospels; content of one of the Gospels), from Old English godspellere.

Noun

gospeler (plural gospelers)

  1. A person who preaches from the Gospels
  2. (music) A singer of gospel music
  3. (obsolete, Early Modern) A Protestant or evangelical Christian.
    • 1549, William Thomas, The historie of Italie [], page 85:
      If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kinde of supersticion to feede vpon. If thou be a gospeller, no man shall aske why thou comest not to churche.
    • 1554 April 8, Nicholas Ridley, “Dr. Ridley late Bishop of London to West, formerly his Steward []”, in John Strype, editor, Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer [], published 1694, page 202:
      You know I have conferred with many, and I ensure you, I never found man, so far as I do remembre, neyther old nor new Gospeller or Papist, of what judgment soever he was, in this thing to be a contrary opinion.
    • 1682, England’s Remembrancer [], London: E. Smith, page 152:
      He for some time kept School at Reading in Barkshire, but after a time being found to be a Gospeller he was forced to fly thence, and repairing to his own Mother, who was a Papist.

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