chiliastic

Example Sentences

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“I hate to tamper with @pkedrosky’s chiliastic predictions, but I never said I was leaving journalism,” Thomas tweeted over the weekend.

From Forbes • Mar. 21, 2011

But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking more angry, obfuscating backtalk, than did ever any argument about Science v.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President's mood was conciliatory rather than chiliastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the chiliastic hopes were gradually obliged to recede in exactly the same proportion as philosophic theology became naturalised, so also their subsidence denotes the progressive tutelage of the laity.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

This notion grew within the Church as chiliastic and apocalyptic Christianity faded away.

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph