millenarian

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The Jehovah's Witnesses are a nontrinitarian millenarian restorationist Christian denomination.

From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2023

In the 1880s a wagon train of Dutch-German Mennonites, burning with millenarian fever, set out to meet Jesus on far side of the Caucasus.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Even though the exact millenarian percentage in the movement is difficult to judge, his observation resonates with what I have seen.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022

The appeal to a mystical, millenarian identity helped unite the fractious Turkic tribes and Ismail was able to bring all of Persia under his rule in a short amount of time.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

In these days of table-turnings, mesmerisms, spirit- rappings, odyle fluids, and millenarian pamphlets selling 80,000 copies among our best-educated classes, we must be allowed to doubt.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire