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

Justin Martyr, on Jews, 16; extension of Christianity, 18; chiliastic views, 27; on Christian worship, 32-35; defence of Christianity, 72-75, 135.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

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

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph