apocalypticiann.
/əˌpɒkəlɪpˈtɪʃən/, U.S. /əˌpɑkəlɪpˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ A person who believes in, promulgates, or interprets the prophecies of the Apocalypse. Also: a person who foresees imminent disaster, esp. on a global scale. Cf. apocalypticist n.
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1831 Monthly Rev. Dec. 487 ‘I have heard,’ says this new Apocalyptician, ‘from an authority which it is my duty to believe implicitly, and to the utmost, that the Scripture is a prophecy of things to come.’
1864 Illustr. Times 20 Aug. 114/1 The theory of the Times correspondent and of the great apocalyptician will not hold.
1976 Listener 15 Jan. 45/2 You might be taken to task for writing that Enoch Powell has a ‘hang-up’ about race, but you would probably get away with calling him an ‘apocalyptician’.
1991 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. vii. 3/3 Has history made him [sc. Orwell] merely historical, one more apocalyptician whose predictions were wrong?
2008 Cultural Critique No. 70. 135 The negative dialectician [sc. Theodor Adorno] was before all else a mythical apocalyptician, no matter how much the course of the world then and still now seems to be heading for total catastrophe and Spenglerian decline.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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- in one'its true light
- in one's
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- in one's blood
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