What's the difference between messiahship and messianic?
Messiahship
Definition:
(n.) The state or office of the Messiah.
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Messianic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
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(1) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(2) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
(3) "Our role is not inheriting that messianic role," he said.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) That toxic blend of messianic warmongering abroad and McCarthyite witch-hunting at home – which gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the London bombings – is coursing through our public life again.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Jones, a tall, bounding figure with a hairstyle and beard verging on the messianic, says the idea emerged from his comedy, where he encouraged those coming to his gigs to get to know one another, and they in turn pressed him for ways to stay in touch and even build small groups.
(7) They are opportunists, a hidden hand.” He warned France against “following the United States in ideological messianism” and of “hatred against hatred, war against war”, urging “a political vision, political strategies”.
(8) Pacquiao’s quasi-messianic desire to combat the poverty that spat him out from General Santos City years ago – a compulsion that's led him all the way to a congressional seat in the Philippines – had left his competitive drive subject to intense scrutiny.
(9) When I spoke to Farage he described Tony Blair’s messianic foreign policy as a post-imperial hang-up.
(10) Is he supposed to be floating, messianically, over the waves?
(11) Morsi's assessment of the region's problems came in stark contrast to the address delivered by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who focused on religious themes, particular his messianic form of Shia Islam, and did not mention the Iranian nuclear programme, which is the focus of rising tension in the region – and in the wider international community.
(12) Some spoke of the disaster in the language of messianism, the idea that God sanctioned Poland’s suffering for a holy purpose.
(13) Markram's belief in the ability of computing technology to solve the big questions of neuroscience is messianic.
(14) The party of separation is a lean, ferociously disciplined and committed force with a leader who is treated with almost messianic reverence.
(15) And he drifted into messianic territory when he predicted it might mark “the beginning of peace in the Middle East and maybe all over the world”.
(16) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(17) Yet every now and then (his almost messianic half-time performance at the 2007 Super Bowl; that month of gigs at the O2 in London), Prince would remind us of his unwaning musical power and why it was necessary and right to prostrate yourself once a month in front of a silent, mocking fax machine.
(18) In January Israel's defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, described Kerry as "obsessive and messianic".
(19) Also significant is Prokhorov's emphasis on universal European values and his criticism of Russia's new messianism, the idea the country has "its own 'special' fate, separate and distinct from everyone else".
(20) Hamas, however, is not a messianic jihadist movement but a local organisation with a pragmatic political leadership and limited aims.