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Second Advent

American  

Second Advent British  

noun

  1. a less common term for the Second Coming

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Second Advent

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

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The Puritans were chiliasts, firm believers in the millennial prophecies of the Bible: the coming of the antichrist, the Second Advent, Armageddon, the works.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

According to Divine Principle, the time for this "Lord of the Second Advent" to be born was right after World War I, and the place, Korea.

From Time Magazine Archive

William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

But some still believed that Christ's Second Advent was imminent.

From Time Magazine Archive

And He will come again, either in our death hour or in His Second Advent, "to receive us" to Himself.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)