Evangeline

Means "good news" from Greek eu) meaning "good" and angelma) meaning "news, message" [1] [2] . It was (first?) used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 epic poem Evangeline [3] [4] . It also appears in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the full name of the character Eva.

classic mature formal upper class natural wholesome delicate refined strange complex serious

1. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry eu)=, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Deu%29%3D.
2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry a)/ggelma, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Fggelma.
3. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 51.
4. Page at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2039/pg2039-images.html.

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