millenarian

American  

[mil-uh-nair-ee-uhn] / ˌmɪl əˈnɛər i ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to a thousand, especially the thousand years of the prophesied millennium.

2. of or relating to the millennium, especially of Christian prophecy, or millennialism.

   millenarian zeal.

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noun

1. a believer in the coming of the millennium.

millenarian British  

/ ˌmɪlɪˈnɛərɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to a thousand or to a thousand years

2. of or relating to the millennium or millenarianism

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noun

1. an adherent of millenarianism

Other Word Forms

• millenarianism noun

Etymology

Origin of millenarian

First recorded in 1545–55; millenary + -an

Example Sentences

On that morning in Naples, I sensed in the dancing figure of the Chimera an echo, not so much of a millenarian Christian Yeats but of something closer to the earth religions.

From New York Times

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

In both my and Churchill’s estimations, for most of the early 2000s militias in the U.S. were about 90 percent constitutionalist groups and 10 percent millenarian groups, and most posed little threat of violence.

From Scientific American

“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

Most of the series takes place within the claustrophobic confines of Mount Carmel, a home-turned-prison that, millenarian polygamist particulars aside, feels more familiar in the locked-down spring of 2020 than it did before.

From New York Times