Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
- adjective Of, relating to, or believing in the doctrine of the millennium.
- noun One who believes the millennium will occur.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to a thousand, specifically to an expected millennial period of righteousness on earth; chiliastic: as, millenarian speculations.
- noun One who believes in the millennium; more specifically, one who believes that Christ will visibly reign on earth with his saints for a thousand years or for an indefinite period of time before the end of the world; a chiliast. See
millennium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
- adjective Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lasting orexpected to last athousand years . - noun A person who believes in an
apocalyptic millennium , anAdventist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)
- adjective relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness
Etymologies
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Examples
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These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century.
Paul Stoller: Enraptured Politics Paul Stoller 2011
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These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century.
Paul Stoller: Enraptured Politics Paul Stoller 2011
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These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century.
Paul Stoller: Enraptured Politics Paul Stoller 2011
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These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Paul Stoller 2011
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That resistance, conventionally called millenarian, is in fact sacramental.
MRZine.org 2008
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That resistance, conventionally called millenarian, is in fact sacramental.
MRZine.org 2008
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At worst, he is fueled by some kind of millenarian impulse, determined to go down in flames and to take his people with him as some kind of last stand against the long-dead scourge of colonialism.
Mbeki and Mugabe 2008
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At worst, he is fueled by some kind of millenarian impulse, determined to go down in flames and to take his people with him as some kind of last stand against the long-dead scourge of colonialism.
Mbeki and Mugabe 2008
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Modern-day jihadists are not; they live in the modern era which, while managing to appease violent "millenarian" tendencies in Christians, has evidently not managed to sate Muslim impulses.
Jihad Watch 2009
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You will get a chuckle over this millenarian zealot's idea that capitalism leads to poverty and socialism leads to wealth, peace, justice and plenty.
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