chiliasm

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In this period the Church cast off the chiliasm which had lingered as a part of a primitive Jewish conception of

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  1. noun Christianity The doctrine stating that Jesus will reign on earth for 1,000 years.

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  1. New Latin chīliasmus, from Late Latin chīlias, chiliad; see chiliad.

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  1. from Greek χιλιασμός the doctrine of the millennium, from χιλιάζειν, be a thousand years old, from χίλιοι, a thousand.
 

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/ˈkɪlɪæzm/
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