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Definition of "chiliastic" []

  • Of, or believing a 1000 year period of peace and prosperity; millenarian (adjective)

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Use "chiliastic" in a sentence
  • "Ms. Delaney shares Mr. Cliff's interest in chiliastic myths but has no talent for spotting them."
  • "Anyone who has read Neiwert's Eliminationists cannot help but be struck by the similarities between the teachings of the far Right, and the equally violent, chiliastic teachings of violent Islamist jihad."
  • "Many of the aphorisms having to do with the Fall, suffering and redemption show a progressivist chiliastic or even quasi-Hegelian structure culminating in some aspect of the coincidentia oppositorum, the final freedom promised by man's release from the prison of the principle of contradiction."
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