millennialism
noun
a belief in the millennium.
millennialist
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a word derived from
millennialism.
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a word derived from
millennium.
millenniumnouna period of 1,000 years.
Example Sentences
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“Like a good millennialist cult, ‘The Leftovers’ grasps an outlandish idea with absolute emotional commitment: The performances in this final run are spectacular throughout,” James Poniewozik wrote in The Times.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2017
Like a good millennialist cult, “The Leftovers” grasps an outlandish idea with absolute emotional commitment: The performances in this final run are spectacular throughout, but especially Ms. Coon’s and Mr. Theroux’s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2017
Though weapons aren’t omnipresent, there is a paramilitary, perhaps millennialist feel to the knights’ drab earth-tone garments and their undercurrent of wariness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2015
Hundreds of pages of millennialist writings, including transcripts of videotapes and the full text of a book called Heaven's Gate, lay out the cult's history and cosmology.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was a decided pre- millennialist, and stood identified in her church-membership with the Evangelical Adventists.
From Canadian Wild Flowers by Helen M. (Helen Mar) Johnson
