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Adventist|ˈædvəntɪst|
Also adventist.
[f. Advent + -ist.]
A member of any of the various religious sects holding millenarian views. Also attrib. Hence ˈadventism, the principles or tenets of adventists.
Second Adventist, orig. the fuller designation of the followers of William Miller (died 1849), who promoted the doctrine that the second coming of Christ and the end of the world were near at hand, a Millerite.
1843Signs of the Times 15 Nov. 109 in F. D. Nichol Midnight Cry (1944) x. 156 The English Adventists. 1844in C. Cist Cincinnati (1845) I. 29 As the day approaches..the faithful adventists continue nearly the whole time, day and night at the Tabernacle. 1874Wellcome Hist. Second Advent Message 592 (D.A.E.), Judaism is being taught. If brethren do not mean to teach it let them tell us so and not teach this under the cloak of Adventism. 1876[see seventh-day 2 b]. 1878in G. L. Prentiss Life & Lett. E. Prentiss (1882) 504 Neither Mr. Prentiss or myself have ever had any sympathy with Second Adventists. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 320/2 At present the number of Millerites or Adventists is estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000. 1895J. R. Harris Union with God xi. 188 The existence of an adventist movement in Jerusalem. 1927Flint & Tait tr. Fülöp-Miller's Mind & Face of Bolshevism 78 The sects with a more rationalist tinge, the ‘Adventists’ and the ‘New Adventists’. |