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

In both my and Churchill’s estimations, for most of the early 2000s militias in the U.S. were about 90 percent constitutionalist groups and 10 percent millenarian groups, and most posed little threat of violence.

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

She had become enamoured of those millenarian opinions which laid hold of so many some twenty-five or thirty years ago. 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel