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postmillennial, a.|pəʊstmɪˈlɛnɪəl|
[f. post- B. 1 b + millennial.]
Of or belonging to the period following the millennium. So postmiˈllennialism, the doctrine that the second Advent will follow the millennium; postmiˈllennialist, a believer in postmillennialism; postmiˈllennian a., postmillennial.
1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions 196 The Day of the real Second Advent, which my correspondent fully admits to be postmillennial. Ibid. 192 The Judicial Destruction of the Man of Sin..is acknowledged, both by Premillennialists and by Postmillennialists, to occur immediately before the commencement of the Thousand Years. Ibid. 205 The two Antichristian Confederacies, premillennian and postmillennian. 1879Princeton Rev. Mar. 425 Dr. Seiss..has described postmillennialism as papistic, Dr. Brookes..branded it as the ‘post-millennial heresy’. |