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Millerite1 U.S.|ˈmɪləraɪt|
[f. the proper name Miller (see below) + -ite1.]
A believer in the doctrines of William Miller (died 1849), an American preacher who interpreted the Scriptures as foretelling the early coming of Christ and the end of the world. So ˈMillerism, the doctrines of William Miller.
1843Niles' Reg. 240/3 Millerism. Father Miller lately visited Rochester, New York, and devoted one whole week to dealing out exhortations. 1846O. A. Brownson Wks. VI. 221 St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians not to believe the Millerites of their time. a1852F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) xii. 44 When Millerism was makin' such a noise,..the Wiggletown folks raly thought ther was something in it. 1854E. G. Holland J. Badger xv. 418 Millerism came along showing large maps of the world's chronology..and all that. 18..Whittier World's End Prose Wks. 1889 II. 424 One of the most ludicrous examples of the sensual phase of Millerism. 1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society iii. xii. 239 There was little organisation..of the scattered converts from Millerism and Campbellism in Britain in the 1860s. 1962G. Shepperson in S. L. Thrupp Millennial Dreams in Action ii. 51 He emphasizes how the reaction against Millerism..‘speeded the adoption of a fervent postmillennialism’. |