n.
    - the teaching or revelation of Christ.
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(Gospel)
 the record of Christ's life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament. 
▸each of these books.
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(also gospel truth)
 something absolutely true.
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(also gospel music)
 a fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    
      - gospelize
 or gospelise v. 
    
   
  Etymology
  OE gōdspel, from gōd ‘good’ + spel ‘news, a story’, translating eccles. L. bona annuntiatio or bonus nuntius, used to gloss eccles. L. evangelium, from Gk euangelion ‘good news’.