chiliastic
/ˌkɪ.liˈæ.stɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement."
Etymology
Etymology tree English chiliast Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English chiliastic From chiliast + -ic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɪ.liˈæ.stɪk/
- British English: /ˌkɪ.liˈa.stɪk/
Inflected Forms
more chiliastic (comparative)
most chiliastic (superlative)