millenarian
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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.
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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
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Etymology
Origin of millenarian
Explanation
Anything millenarian relates to the Christian idea that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will bring 1000 years of peace and joy. A millennium is a thousand years, so anything millenarian relates to one thousand years — but not any thousand years. This is a specifically Christian concept relating to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In some sects of the Christian religion, it's believed that the return of Jesus will lead an amazing new era that will last a thousand years. These are millenarian ideas, and they're part of millenarian theology. A novel based on these ideas could be called millenarian fiction.
Vocabulary lists containing 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
Churchill says it “seems the millenarian wing has come to the fore.”
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022
Shorn of the millenarian vision that gave them their point in Dury's own day, his ideas have become the accepted standards of modern librarianship.
From The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) by Dury, John
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