apocalyptist

[ uh-pok-uh-lip-tist ]

noun

1. a writer of apocalyptic literature.
2. a person who adheres to the teachings of apocalyptic literature concerning the signs and events preceding the end of the world.
3. a person who holds to any teachings that predict a catastrophic end to the world.

Word History and Origins

Origin of apocalyptist¹

First recorded in 1825–35; apocalypt(ic) + -ist

Example Sentences

The Apostle Paul, whose constant labour it was to destroy the particularism of the Jew, and raise the Gentile to full, free, and equal participation with him in the benefits of the New Covenant, could not but incur the bitter displeasure of the Apocalyptist, for whom the Gentiles were, as such, the type of all that was common and unclean.

From Project Gutenberg

Still the Midrash maintains that Daniel, or the person writing in his name, was no prophet, like Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, but a man of visions, an apocalyptist.

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This school practically denies anything more than a half-accidental continuity between the preaching of the historical Christ, whom they strangely suppose to have been a mere apocalyptist, one of the many Messiahs or Mahdis who arose at this period in Palestine, and the Catholic Church, which according to them belonged to the same type of religion as the worship of Isis and Mithra.

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