millenarian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a thousand, especially the thousand years of the prophesied millennium.
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of or relating to the millennium, especially of Christian prophecy, or millennialism.
millenarian zeal.
noun
adjective
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of or relating to a thousand or to a thousand years
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of or relating to the millennium or millenarianism
noun
Other Word Forms
- millenarianism noun
Etymology
Origin of millenarian
Example Sentences
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The Jehovah's Witnesses are a nontrinitarian millenarian restorationist Christian denomination.
From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2023
In the 1880s a wagon train of Dutch-German Mennonites, burning with millenarian fever, set out to meet Jesus on far side of the Caucasus.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022
Even though the exact millenarian percentage in the movement is difficult to judge, his observation resonates with what I have seen.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022
“There’s a kind of millenarian sense in the air, an apocalyptic feeling, with the coronavirus and this war in Ukraine,” he said in an interview.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022
He held millenarian views, and was the founder of a school of theologians who were called after him Cocceians.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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