Sekirov Dictionary

millenarian

/mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

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.
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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
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Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
- […] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium. — 1994

noun1

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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

forms

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