chiliastic

Example Sentences

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“I hate to tamper with @pkedrosky’s chiliastic predictions, but I never said I was leaving journalism,” Thomas tweeted over the weekend.

From Forbes • Mar. 21, 2011

The President's mood was conciliatory rather than chiliastic.

From Time Magazine Archive

But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking more angry, obfuscating backtalk, than did ever any argument about Science v.

From Time Magazine Archive

Primitive Christianity was marked by great chiliastic enthusiasm, traces of which may be found in the New Testament.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

John, Apostle, death of, 9, 10; chiliastic teaching, 26 f.; in Ephesus, 114, 116, 118; founds order of bishops, 122.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen