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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium..
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview that Mr. Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.
Had the aliens in “Independence Day” succeeded in their conquest of the Planet Earth and set about investigating the world they'd just destroyed, they might have come to some rather odd conclusions about our pre-millennial culture.
[I]t is highly likely that some preachers may have called on millennial frettings for their purposes. The theologian Abbo of Fleury recalled a premillennial sermon in his youth which did precisely this.
He [David Fincher] hit his stride again with “Fight Club,” […] Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety.
Use premillennial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Premillennial means (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include postmillennial.
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas, said in an interview that Mr. Van Impe’s premillennial view of the end times paved the way for his own ministry and that of other popular preachers like John Hagee and David Jeremiah.
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