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messianic

[ US /ˌmɛsiˈænɪk/ ]
[ UK /mˌɛsɪˈænɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance
    messianic cult

How To Use messianic In A Sentence

  • The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
  • The book proved such a success that the authors followed it up with "The Messianic Legacy".
  • Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good.
  • However, beginning in 1993 there was intense messianic fervour in the community.
  • He announced the imminent arrival of a messianic leader.
  • These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories.
  • The strength and the weakness were thus two sides of the same coin minted by Comte's sheer energy and persistence (or obstinacy, according to taste) which derived, in turn, from the strength of his motivation: the urgency of the social problem as he saw it; the need for a complete intellectual system as the means of solving it; and his conception of his own messianic mission. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • OK, hopefully the thought has crossed more than my mind that this whole Obama-mania is in a word, Messianic. The Buzz at Ben’s Chili Bowl - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Three Stages and the idea of a hierarchy of the sci - ences; the worship of natural science and of technol - ogy; the commitment to a physiological view of the mind; the subjection of the historical process to laws of human nature; the interweaving and interdepend - ence of scientific and historical method; the increas - ingly emphatic view of themselves in messianic terms, and the development of a full-blown religion to replace orthodox Christianity, complete with disciples — all these and other teachings were common to the two men. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Most strikingly, in the belief that the wider dissemination of the Kabbalah would speed up the effectuation of the messianic project, the Sabbateans were systematically teaching it to their women, especially the esoteric Zohar, in which only a small, exclusively male elite would traditionally have been initiated. Sabbateanism.
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