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
She had become deeply impressed with the millenarian fervour which laid hold of so many some twenty-five or thirty years ago.
From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.