Adjective : millenarian zeal. From Dictionary.com.
That resistance, conventionally called millenarian, is in fact sacramental. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
But there are also millenarian, revolutionary states. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 24, 2009] Reference
"It's really just a millenarian movement," Jase said. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
You have much more of a millenarian view on Ahmadinejad ` s part. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2006] Reference
So the millenarian imagination persists, after 'the end of history'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
You can grow professionally and learn a millenarian culture as well. From Wordnik.com. [Learn a Language in Denver – Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Why do millenarian cults occur in the post-colonial world Adas 1979?. From Wordnik.com. [A range of causal questions] Reference
STEPHENS: Well, there's a very troubling millenarian aspect to Iranian rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2008] Reference
To be fair to the millenarian nut cases, a financial meltdown can be a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Obama To McCain: "Senator -- What Economy Are You Talking About?"] Reference
How seriously and literally are we to take Dostoevsky's millenarian prognostications?. From Wordnik.com. [The Millennium & Dostoevsky: An Exchange] Reference
Prophets of rebellion : millenarian protest movements against the European colonial order. From Wordnik.com. [A range of causal questions] Reference
This millenarian attitude of waiting for deliverance in the form of impeachment is not helping. From Wordnik.com. [Behind-The-Scenes Tensions Abounded In Capitol Today] Reference
One answer to the experience of disorder was the explicitly millenarian exaltation of Savonarola. From Wordnik.com. [Civic Humanism] Reference
However, before you too are tempted to succumb to this millenarian madness, consider the following. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Conference, are millenarian; thus a very large segment of Protestantism today is of this persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [MILLENARIANISM] Reference
Joanna Southcott organized a millenarian sect, claiming she would bear a son, Shiloh of Gen. 49: 10. From Wordnik.com. [1788] Reference
Mahdi, the final prophet who would lead the Islamic world in a millenarian war against the forces of evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 18 The Ghaznavids and Seljuqs] Reference
A little millenarian but tolerable in a part of the world where ideological tolerance is not a strong suit. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Flood: Wither the Clash of Civilizations?...Not Just Yet] Reference
This was after the Buddhist millenarian usurpation by the Empress had been overthrown and Tang rule restabilized. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 6 Further Umayyad Expansion in West Turkistan] Reference
Cromwell had "surrendered himself to millenarian enthusiasm" according to Barry Coward, as he told the Barebones. From Wordnik.com. [The Pamphleteers Protestant Champion: Viewing Oliver Cromwell Through the Media of his Day] Reference
When Islám entered upon the tenth century of its existence, there was throughout Persia and India a millenarian movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
But the millenarian focus of the movement had lent it disproportional weight in the religious anxiety surrounding the Spin. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Life is just a little more complex than Linda Smith's stark, millenarian (and self serving) prescriptions would have us believe. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A wave of rural radicalism in eastern South Africa was marked by the rise of the ICU and other radical or millenarian movements. From Wordnik.com. [1923] Reference
Hamas completely disregards the day-to-day welfare of all Gazans in order to pursue its millenarian vision of an Islamic Palestine. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Israel Can Win in Gaza] Reference
Nowadays we shudder at those creepy millenarian visions the former prime minister used to dish out when addressing Labour conferences. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
A millenarian religious group, the Tianli Sect, rose in rebellion and invaded the imperial palaces in Beijing, before being suppressed. From Wordnik.com. [E. East Asia, 1793-1914] Reference
Ahmadinejad and his group are a minority, very radical group who believe in these millenarian, messianic types of apocalyptic ideologies. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen Wells, J.D.: Dr. Hossein Ziai Says Iran May See Another Revolution] Reference
I think that the loss of lucidity, and the barely concealed, millenarian 'self-flagellation' referred to above completely outweigh these benefits. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The phrase "Calvinist millenarian," upon further examination, joins two sets of seemingly incompatible ideas without explaining the origins of this odd combination. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation] Reference
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