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chiliastic

adjective as in thousand

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All the terrifying monsters of this new era – racism, nationalism, the ruthless dispossession of the poor, the chiliastic frenzy of a white male subject under constant imagined threat – were already there.

Subsequently he adopted Baptist views, and lost himself in fantastic chiliastic speculations.

In it he frequently and unreservedly favours the chiliastic tendencies of Irving....

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

From Forbes

A symptom of the same despair is the rise of chiliastic aspirations, and the belief in the approaching end of the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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