What's the difference between millenarian and millennium?

Millenarian


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
  • (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
  • (2) He said the group was the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
  • (3) Rayner's report made it clear the group had elements of a cult, calling it the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
  • (4) In 1959 he published his first major work, Primitive Rebels, a strikingly original account, particularly for those times, of southern European rural secret societies and millenarian cultures (he was still writing about the subject as recently as 2011).
  • (5) In his analysis of Breivik's document, Doug Sanders points to the influence of "Eurabian" writers such as Bawer, Mark Steyn, Melanie Phillips and Robert Spencer in agitating for a millenarian vision of a civilisation under attack.
  • (6) His best known study, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957), demonstrated convincingly that the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Marxism and nazism, shared a "common stock of European social mythology" with apocalyptic medieval movements such as the Flagellants and the Anabaptists.
  • (7) Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm (1959) Packed with bandits, mobs, anarchic millenarians and wandering journeymen, this delighted me as a student.
  • (8) Those who heard Hill deliver the lectures on which it is based - lectures delivered in a nervous, slightly stuttering voice - will always reserve a special place for his 1972 study of radical and millenarian ideas, The World Turned Upside Down.

Millennium


Definition:

  • (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
  • (2) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
  • (3) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
  • (4) According to the MDC source, whose name the Observer has redacted, "Kofi Annan, in the recent meeting in New York during the millennium summit offered Mugabe a deal to step down.
  • (5) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (6) These criteria cover poverty reduction and the millennium development goals, respect for human rights, good governance, transparency and accountability.
  • (7) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
  • (8) She wrote to Moore and asked him to remove it in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
  • (9) There was Paul Nicolaou, the head of the Liberal party fundraising arm the Millennium Forum who, the Icac was told, was getting a $5,000 a month lobbying fee.
  • (10) Two weeks before the ill-fated encounter in the Millennium hotel, the pair met Litvinenko in the Grosvenor Square office of a private security company.
  • (11) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
  • (12) Carmel McConnell, the founder and chief executive of Magic Breakfast, first got involved with the issue around the turn of the millennium, when she was visiting schools to conduct research for a book on how business could engage with local communities.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
  • (14) The Millennium Development Goals have succeeded in bringing down the numbers of deaths of children under the age of five, but the rate of reduction of newborn deaths is about half that of the rest.
  • (15) In September 2015, UN negotiators will work towards an agreement on what will come after the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire that year.
  • (16) The Doctor Who anniversary celebrations continue for the rest of the millennium • This article was amended on 22 November 2013 to remove swearwords
  • (17) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
  • (18) Christians form about 10% of Egypt's population, and have lived largely peacefully alongside Muslims for over a millennium.
  • (19) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
  • (20) It met the millennium development goal of halving poverty rates by 2015 , and was hailed as a model of political stability after peaceful elections.