Meanings
- not comparableSynonym of millenarian.
Scotland: History of a Nation is one of many tomes we can expect in this momentous, millenniary and evolutionary times.
1999 March 12, The Herald, Glasgow, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 20252 more examples
Particularly Rom[ans] viii. 19, 20, 21. which I would thus render, and thus punctuate: The earneſtly wiſhful expectancy of the creation, i. e. of the brute-creation; that implicit thirſt after happineſs, wrought and kneaded into the very being of every creature endued with ſenſitive life; virtually waits, with vehement deſire, for that appointed, glorious manifeſtation of the ſons of God, which is to take place in the millenniary ſtate: […]
a. 1779, Augustus Toplady, “An Essay on Original Sin”, in The Gleanings of the Vintage, Being Several Essays and Meditations Selected from the Manuscripts of Periodical Papers, […], Lincoln, Lincolnshire: […] S. Simmons, Dilly, […], published 1783, →OCLC, page 35They also set the terms for the millenniary process through which apartheid might engineer a racially separated but economically integrated society.
1987 January, Jean Comaroff, “The Political Mythology of Apartheid. By Leonard Thompson. […]”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 92, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLCSynonyms: millenarian
- not comparableSynonym of millennial (“relating to a millennium”).
millenniary celebration of Rome's foundation
2000, David L. Vagi, Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, page 3281 more example
millenniary celebration for Ansgar's arrival in Denmark
2002, Martin Schwarz Lausten, A Church History of Denmark, page 218Synonyms: millennial
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of millenarian.
adjectiveSynonym of millennial (“relating to a millennium”).
Origin
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