It was, however, in the Puritan movement in England, and in similar movements on the continent — especially the Bohemian Brethren — that chiliasm asserted its greatest vitality as an historical force.
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Chiliasm
//ˈkɪ.lɪæ.z(ə)m//
Synonyms for "chiliasm" (6 found)
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Dutch
2 entries- chiliasme noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- millennialisme noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Finnish
1 entries- kiliasmi noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
French
2 entries- chiliasme noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- millénarisme noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Hungarian
1 entries- kiliazmus noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Italian
2 entries- chiliasmo noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- millenarismo noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Polish
2 entries- chiliazm noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- millenaryzm noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Romanian
2 entries- chiliasm noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- milenarism noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Russian
2 entries- милленаризм noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- хилиазм noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Spanish
2 entries- milenarismo noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
- quiliasmo noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
Swedish
1 entries- kiliasm noun (belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
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One of them, bureaucratic conservatism, represented the routinized sphere of administration, whereas the other, chiliasm, gave rise to the utopian consciousness and modern politics.
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It is a known fact that Bolshevism has unmistakable characteristics of apocalyptic chiliasm, albeit misinterpreted in a physical, earthly way.
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