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(adj) another term for millenarian (the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)

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chiliasm
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This was an ad hoc realisation of the traditional chiliastic yearning for equal shares of the land for all who worked it – ‘black repartition’, as this redistribution was known – and the freedoms that should ensue.

—p.116 April: The Prodigal (107) by China Miéville
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those who have not yet been apprised of the changes they personify regard the writers [...] as chiliastic

—p.14 Crackpot Realism: Fiction for the Forthcoming Millenium (13) by Melvin Jules Bukiet
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Moreover, abject ‘adjustment’ to suffering and want at times may indicate a sense of reality as impaired as that of the chiliast.

—p.50 Christian and Apollyon (26) by E.P. Thompson
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There is a sense in which any religion which places great emphasis on the after-life is the Chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless.

—p.381 The Transforming Power of the Cross (350) by E.P. Thompson
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The very rigour of his environmental and mechanical materialism meant that he must either despair or proclaim a secular chiliasm.

—p.787 Class Consciousness (711) by E.P. Thompson
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the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.

on the abolition of capital

—p.162 On Endnotes (149) missing author
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