millennialism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- millennialist noun
Etymology
Origin of millennialism
First recorded in 1905–10; millennial + -ism
Example Sentences
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There's also a connection between Bitcoin and millennialism, or the belief in a coming collective salvation for a select group of people.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2022
Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2019
All this belongs, of course, to the world of fervid fantasy and café millennialism.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2015
Many adopted millennialism, the fervent belief that the Kingdom of God would be established on earth and that God would reign on earth for a thousand years, characterized by harmony and Christian morality.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
The problems of the church in Corinth alone included rituals, interfaith relations, millennialism, litigation, sexual irregularity, diet, women's dress and relations between slaves and masters, Christians and pagans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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