millenarian
Example Sentences
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“There’s a kind of millenarian sense in the air, an apocalyptic feeling, with the coronavirus and this war in Ukraine,” he said in an interview.
From New York Times
Out of this ferment arose millenarian fever and the Rabbi Sabbatai Tzvi, who claimed to be the Messiah and violated the Torah commandments.
From Los Angeles Times
Most of the series takes place within the claustrophobic confines of Mount Carmel, a home-turned-prison that, millenarian polygamist particulars aside, feels more familiar in the locked-down spring of 2020 than it did before.
From New York Times
Less well-known is the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by a millenarian, proto-Islamic State movement, which the Saudi government dislodged only at a cost of hundreds dead.
From Washington Post
All of which raises another disturbing question: What if this administration's chaos-sowing proves an end in itself, one that coheres with the millenarian fantasies of sections of the Republican Christian Right?
From Salon
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