Adventistn.
/ˈadv(ə)ntɪst/, U.S. /ˈædˌvɛn(t)əst/, /ædˈvɛn(t)əst/, /ədˈvɛn(t)əst/ A member of any of various Christian sects emphasizing belief in the imminent Second Coming of Christ; spec. a follower of William Miller (1782–1849), who predicted that the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the present world order would take place between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844; = Millerite n.1 (more fully Second Adventist: see second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1). Cf. Seventh-day Adventist n..
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1843 Signs of Times 15 Nov. 109/3 Publications have been sent to every English and American Mission in the world... The English Adventists, have also, for the last twenty odd years, been engaged in the same work.
1844 in C. Cist Cincinnati (1845) I. 29 As the day approaches..the faithful adventists continue nearly the whole time, day and night at the Tabernacle.
1878 in G. L. Prentiss Life & Lett. E. Prentiss (1882) 504 Neither Mr. Prentiss or myself have ever had any sympathy with Second Adventists.
1895 J. R. Harris Union with God xi. 188 The existence of an adventist movement in Jerusalem.
1927 F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait tr. R. Fülöp-Miller Mind & Face of Bolshevism 78 The sects with a more rationalist tinge, the ‘Adventists’ and the ‘New Adventists’.
1958 L. Durrell Balthazar ii. 29 Alexandria is a city of sects..Steinerites..Ouspenskyists, Adventists.
2004 P. de Rosa Fatal Flaw Christianity ix. 234 Since then, there have always been adventist or millenarian sects who predicted the end of the world and thousand-year reign of the saints.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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