televangelist
Noun
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televangelist (plural televangelists)
A religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his or her ministry to television broadcasts to a regular viewing audience.
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I am not a televangelist.
He learns that his burned-out, pot-smoking, ex-hippie parents (Jonathan Hugger, Sharon Gregg) have donated the money they promised him for finishing school to a crooked televangelist.
Once embraced by televangelist Jerry Falwell, the founder of Moral Majority and the person most directly responsible for bringing the evangelical movement into the Republican Party, religiously fueled homophobia reached unprecedented heights.
Expressing amazement, skepticism, or even shock at the wealth and followings of some televangelist leaders is not surprising.
It turns out Jeffcoat’s brother is a famous televangelist, and Jock himself is ten times wealthier than Chuck imagined.
Four years later, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and televangelist Pat Robertson beat Vice President George H.W. Bush in the Iowa caucuses.