Millenarian

Quick meaning: Millenarian is an adjective meaning Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.

Meaning

Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.

More Meanings

1. Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
2. A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium.
3. (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth.

Example Sentences

[…] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.

But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.

Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.

Restoration of the old empires was not the aim of the totalitarian revolutions in Russia and Germany, since both wanted to bring back the millenarian empire.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for millenarian

Depending on context, synonyms include millennial, chiliast, chiliastic, millenarist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chiliastic, millenarist, millennial, parousian, humanitarian, secular.

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