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premillennial

premillennial adjective: pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.

Adjective

premillennial (not comparable)

  1. 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.2020 January 22, Elizabeth Dias, “Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88”, in The New York Times
    Antonyms:
    postmillennial
  2. Occurring before, or in anticipation of, a new millennium.
    • 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.1996 September 22, Michiko Kakutani, “The Trickle-Down Theory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • [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.1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 184
    Antonyms:
    postmillennial

Noun

premillennial (plural premillennials)

  1. One who believes in the advent of Christ before the new millennium.

Antonyms of premillennial

Forms of premillennial

Adjective
alternative formpre-millennial
Noun
pluralpremillennials

Origin of premillennial

From pre- + millennial.

Words formed from premillennial

Questions about premillennial

What does premillennial mean?
Premillennial means pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.
What part of speech is premillennial?
Premillennial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near premillennial in the dictionary

  1. premilks
  2. premilled
  3. premillenarian
  4. premillenarianism
  5. premillenarians
  6. premillennial
  7. premillennialism
  8. premillennialist
  9. premillennialists
  10. premillennially
  11. premillennials

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