Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. literally last thing; used in theology to refer to the climax of history, culminating in the Last Judgement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἔσχατον ("end"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I find it interesting, if you don't mind a brief excursus, that the Greek word "eschaton" which means the end of the world, that is to say, the end of time also means the ends of the earth, which is to say the limits of space.”
“Wow, this will never happen again — indeed, I sense the eschaton is imminent from the fact that it’s happening now — so duty impels me to sayit:”
“In Niebuhr’s version of politics, the central fact of human nature this side of the eschaton is sin, and it is the purpose of government not to eliminate sin, but to constrain or ameliorate its bad effects by passing laws and using armed force prudently.”
“The eschaton is the end of the world, when we will finally know the truth for what it is.”
““The source of immanentize the eschaton is the 1952 New Science of Politics, by Eric Voegelin,” he explained.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“More and more regularly, defenses of continuationism appeal not backward to the apostolic period, but forward to the eschaton, which is making rearward inroads into the present.”
“Harper's point man in PEI crashes through the underbrush, announcing Harper's moves to immanentize the eschaton, something that conservatives apparently once frowned upon.”
“I think another way of putting it is, "The priest is the man of the eschaton.”
“He tried to imminentize the eschaton on a Friday – a big no-no to a catholic like McCarthy.”
“In its more earnest moments the ACoC does engage in its favourite pipe-dream of immanentising the eschaton and it even hires people to help.”
Why The Meeting House irritates Anglicans « Anglican Samizdat
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eschaton’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
eagre, earing, earwig, easement, eau-de-nil, ebberman, ebeneous, ?boulement, ebriection, ?brillade, ebrious, ebullioscope and 616 more...
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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mckenna
eschaton, rusticate, sonata, plenum, adumbration, shockwave, peregrination, manifold, ingression, dross, negrato, crenulated and 30 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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End of story
cloture, closure, guillotine, epilogue, denouement, ultimate, eschaton, coda, finale, happily ever after
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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some of my favorites
some of my favorite words
tintinnabulation, lascivious, ontology, chthonic, eldritch, squamous, verity, specificity, euphony, cacophony, therianthrope, morbidity and 157 more...
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Vocabulary of Lord Rahl
Master Rahl guide us.
Master Rahl teach us.
Master Rahl protect us.
In your light we thrive.
In your mercy we are sheltered.
In your wisdom we are humbled.
internecine, antipodal, poliorcetics, haruspex, hejira, conventicle, ultroneous, Myrmidon, epic, fantasy, empire, victory and 121 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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sbowers's Words
solipsism, insouciant, quixotic, prosaic, turgid, purview, cogent, craven, foment, lithe, nebulous, sentient and 29 more...
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From the Vault
Before there was Wordie, there was... Notepad. Last night I fired up my old laptop for the first time in a couple years. It was a trip down memory lane, for I discovered that this machine (once pre...
aglet, akimbo, callipygian, defenestration, dulcet, exsanguinate, floccinaucinihili..., gadfly, omphaloskepsis, solipsism, souse, verisimilitude and 40 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eschaton.
whichbe A ton of eschewing. Nov 22, 2008