millenarian

Example Sentences

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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

They have pointed to her "monotone voice" and framed her as a "millenarian weirdo" with the "look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes."

From Scientific American

In fact they are a common element in another modern institution, the millenarian cult.

From Salon

Davidson and Rees-Mogg present an explicitly millenarian vision of the near future: the collapse of old orders, the rising of a new world.

From The Guardian