millenarian
UK/mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/
millenarian adjective: 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.
Adjective
millenarian (comparative more millenarian, superlative most millenarian)
- 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.
- Franciscans coming from Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times […]2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699
- Mirandola cultivated a Dominican friar, Savonarola, whose millenarian visions had provoked revolution: in the wake of France's invasion, he had inspired a popular uprising in Florence, its ruling Medici family replaced by a people's republic.2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 108
- Synonyms:
- millennial
- Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.
- 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.2007, Bryan-Paul Frost, Daniel J. Mahoney, editors, Political Reason in the Age of Ideology, page 182
- Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
- […] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.1994, Catalan Review, volume 8, page 222
- But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.1997, Olivier Clément, Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, page 159
Noun
millenarian (plural millenarians)
- A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium.
- Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.2021 June 6, Daniel Hannan, “Communism is evolving. But the new version is no more toxic than the old one”, in The Daily Telegraph
millenarian meaning in Indonesian
millenarian in Indonesian
- 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
- milenial
Synonyms of millenarian
Forms of millenarian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more millenarian |
| superlative | most millenarian |
| Noun | |
| plural | millenarians |
Origin of millenarian
From Late Latin millenarius + English -an.
Words formed from millenarian
Questions about millenarian
- What does millenarian mean?
- Millenarian means 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.
- What is millenarian in Indonesian?
- Millenarian in Indonesian is milenial. See Millenarian meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is millenarian?
- Millenarian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce millenarian?
- Millenarian is pronounced /mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/ (UK).
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