Definition of "millenarism" []

• Millenary doctrine or belief; millenarianism. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Because of this, peasant movements would often express themselves in a form of religious millenarism c.f. the Peasant War in Germany or the Diggers and Levellers in 17th century England which would act as a substitute for the political and economic homogeneity that they so desperately lacked."
• "However, near the south transept there is a humble stone cross, as simple as it is strange, hiding amidst the greenery of the square ... whatever its age [late 17th/early 18th Cent], the HEndaye cross shows by the decoration of its pedestal that it is the strangest monument of primitive millenarism, the rarest symbolical translation of chiliasm***, which I have ever met."
• "*** (Translator's note: millenarism, chiliasm, doctrine of belief in the millenium)"