Definition of "millenarian"

Franciscans coming from Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times […]

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699

Mirandola cultivated a Dominican friar, Savonarola, whose millenarian visions had provoked revolution: in the wake of France's invasion, he had inspired a popular uprising in Florence, its ruling Medici family replaced by a people's republic.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 108

Restoration of the old empires was not the aim of the totalitarian revolutions in Russia and Germany, since both wanted to bring back the millenarian empire.

2007, Bryan-Paul Frost, Daniel J. Mahoney, editors, Political Reason in the Age of Ideology, page 182

[…] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.

1994, Catalan Review, volume 8, page 222

But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.

1997, Olivier Clément, Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, page 159

In a few years, by fueling a sense of regained confidence within its own people, which suffered from the fall of a millenarian empire, Ataturk managed to readapt Turkish traditions in the framework of a new model of state.

2006, Journal of Middle Eastern geopolitics, volume 1