millenarian

kiliasti

kiliastinen puhekieltä Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ. (defdate)
2009, (w), A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 699:

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.

(..) 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.