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English
Etymology
From chiliast + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
chiliastic (comparative more chiliastic, superlative most chiliastic)
- Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.
- Synonym: millenarian
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 139:The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today.
1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:The evanescent quality of Debord's later writing, his chiliastic serenity, is patent here: a voice speaking from a world one might want to make and then to live in, but also the voice of the mad professor in Eric Ambler's spy thriller Cause for Alarm.
2012 March 5, George Monbiot, “How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx”, in The Guardian:Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.
2018, John Gray, “The problem of hyper-liberalism”, in TLS:In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement.
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