millenarian
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The Jehovah's Witnesses are a nontrinitarian millenarian restorationist Christian denomination.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2023
On that morning in Naples, I sensed in the dancing figure of the Chimera an echo, not so much of a millenarian Christian Yeats but of something closer to the earth religions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 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
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
The millenarian alone would have done nothing lasting; the moralist alone would have done nothing powerful.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
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