chiliast
IPA: tʃˈɪɫiæst
noun
- (Christianity, typically derogatory) Synonym of millenarian: a person who believes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will involve his physical rule on Earth for 1000 years.
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Examples of "chiliast" in Sentences
- It is worth noting that, as befits a chiliast, Ghose never denies action.
- So with DARE’s classicist, George Goebel, the great lexicographer turned from Latin to Greek: deutero means “second” and chiliast refers to the biblical “kingdom of a thousand years.”
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