chiliasm
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chiliasm
1600–10; < Greek chīliasmós, equivalent to chī́li ( oi ) 1000 + -asmos, variant of -ismos -ism before stems ending in -i-
Example Sentences
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By the early 18th century, moral instability encouraged both libertinism and chiliasm.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2018
This chiliasm, playing at the drama of the last days, nourishes when life is no longer seen as ascendant.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this sense the extirpation or decay of chiliasm is perhaps the most momentous fact in the history of Christianity in the East.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Dionysius asserts that he convinced these Churches by his lectures; but chiliasm and material religious ideas were still long preserved in the deserts of Egypt.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
It was only in the course of the third century that chiliasm was almost completely ousted in the East.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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