Expect vs Millenarian - What's the difference?
expect | millenarian |
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 699:
*:Franciscans coming from Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times [...].
*2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 108:
*:Mirandola cultivated a Dominican friar, Savonarola, whose millenarian visions had provoked revolution: in the wake of France's invasion, he had inspired a popular uprising in Florence, its ruling Medici family replaced by a people's republic.
Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming radical change to existing world order; utopian, apocalyptic.
Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
* 1994 , in the Catalan Review , volume 8, page 222:
* 1997 , Olivier Clément, Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I , page 159:
* 2006 , in the Journal of Middle Eastern geopolitics , volume 1:
As a verb expect
is to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).As an adjective millenarian is
(christianity) pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the second coming of christ.As a noun millenarian is
a person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium, an adventist.expect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)
Usage notes
* Expect'' is a mental act and has always a reference to the future, to some coming event; as a person expects to die, or he expects to survive. ''Think]]'' and ''believe'' have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future; as I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is he is at home now. There is a not uncommon use of ''expect'', which is a confusion of the two; as, I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home. This misuse should be avoided. ''[[await, Await'' is a physical or moral act. We await that which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See ''anticipate . * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* anticipate * look for * await * hopeDerived terms
* expected adjective * expecting adjective * unexpectedStatistics
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Adjective
(en adjective)- contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.
- But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.
- In a few years, by fueling a sense of regained confidence within its own people, which suffered from the fall of a millenarian empire, Ataturk managed to readapt Turkish traditions in the framework of a new model of state.