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
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
Fifth-Monarchy enthusiasts recalled the prophecies of Daniel and Revelations and linked them with the relatively immediate experience of the Thirty Years' War; motives of mercantile jealousy were to some extent offset by millenarian anxiety.
From The History of Sabatai Sevi The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews by John Evelyn
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