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
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 • Feb. 16, 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
The appeal to a mystical, millenarian identity helped unite the fractious Turkic tribes and Ismail was able to bring all of Persia under his rule in a short amount of time.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
It is often discredited by millenarian dreams, but altogether apart from these it has solidity and substance enough to bear the whole weight of a world rested upon it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander
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