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 […]

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.