end-times

A form of end times — The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.

Meanings

nounend-times pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of end times.

    I gazed from the railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom, a pilgrim bearing witness to end-times in the temple of the glaciers.

    2022 November 22, Tom Kizzia, “End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers”, in The New York Times
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    End-times thinking has a long and rather unimpressive history as prediction, but Žižek adopts it anyway (perhaps as a useful lie), […]

    2010 June 25, Steven Poole, “Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek”, in The Guardian
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “end-times,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/end-times.

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