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Millenarian   Listen
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Millenarian  n.  One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.






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"Millenarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... before she left, little thinking, as she acknowledged, that so much could be said in defence of the practice among Friends. She even said she thought it to be a general loss to the Christian Church that women are not permitted to take part in the ministry. She is a thorough Millenarian, and said the prophecy in Joel, that the Spirit should be poured out on all flesh, referred to the coming of Christ to reign on the earth, until I reminded her of what happened on the day of Pentecost, when Peter said expressly ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley

... of my departure my mother continued to read the Bible with us and explain it. She had become enamoured of those millenarian opinions which laid hold of so many some twenty-five or thirty years ago. The Apocalypse was perhaps her favourite book in the Bible, and she was imbued with a conviction that all the many and varied horrors with which it teems were upon the eve of their accomplishment. ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler



Words linked to "Millenarian" :   millenarist, millennium, chiliastic, optimist



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