Definitions

1. noun

a woman who promotes or spreads Christianity, especially through the sale of religious books and tracts

“The street preacher was an evangeline who had been witnessing to the public for years.”

2. proper noun

the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘Evangeline’, a young Acadian woman who was separated from her lover during the Deportation of the Acadians

“The poem ‘Evangeline’ tells the poignant story of a young couple’s love in the face of adversity, as in the case of Evangeline and her beloved Gabriel.”