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Definition of "premillennial" []

  • Of or happening in the time before the millennium. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "premillennial" in a sentence
  • "Many fundamentalist Christians believe in what's known as the premillennial view of history, a few believe in what is known as the post-millennial view and, fewer still, an a-millennial, meaning "no-millennium.""
  • "The vast majority of Christian evangelicals in the United States are called premillennial dispensationalists."
  • "These Christians are Zionists because they believe that Christ's second coming will be heralded by a powerful Jewish state a theory called premillennial dispensationalism."