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chiliasms

chiliasms is the plural of chiliasm.

Meaning of chiliasm

Noun

chiliasm (plural chiliasms)

  1. Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.
    • It was, however, in the Puritan movement in England, and in similar movements on the continent — especially the Bohemian Brethren — that chiliasm asserted its greatest vitality as an historical force.1975, Gershom Gerhard Scholem (translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky), Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676, page 101

Noun capitalized: Chiliasms

Chiliasms

  1. (plural) plural of Chiliasm

Questions about chiliasms

What is chiliasms the plural of?
Chiliasms is the plural of chiliasm.
What part of speech is chiliasms?
Chiliasms is a noun.

Words near chiliasms in the dictionary

  1. chiliarchies
  2. chiliarchs
  3. chiliarchy
  4. chilias
  5. chiliasm
  6. chiliasms
  7. chiliast
  8. chiliastic
  9. chiliasts
  10. chiliaëdron
  11. chiliburger

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