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millenarianism|mɪlɪˈnɛərɪənɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism.]
The doctrine of or belief in the coming of the millennium.
1856[see Ebionitism]. 1864Chamber's Encycl. VI. 459/2 From this time, the church formally rejected millenarianism in its sensuous ‘visible’ form. 1881Stanley Chr. Instit. v. (ed. 2) 85 The whole history of early Millenarianism implies the same incapacity for distinguishing between poetry and prose. 1894J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects (ed. 2) 329 Millenarianism is to a certain degree not unorthodox, but..Millenarians who uphold the doctrine of a sensual or Judaic Millennium are unequivocally condemned by theologians. 1937A. Reese Approaching Advent Christ 304 Millennarianism has need to pray frequently to be saved from its friends. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 900 In the early Church, Millenarianism was upheld principally among the Gnostics and Montanists, but also upheld by more orthodox writers... Although primitive Millenarianism lingered on..down to the end of the 4th cent., it received its death-blow from Origen. 1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society ii. ix. 189 Mrs Eddy..was unrelenting in her attacks on spiritualism, mesmerism..and millenarianism. |