apocalypticistn.
/əpɒkəˈlɪptᵻsɪst/, U.S. /əˌpɑkəˈlɪptəsəst/ A person who believes in, promulgates, or interprets the prophecies of the Apocalypse. Also: a person who foresees imminent disaster, esp. on a global scale. Cf. apocalyptician n.
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1863 Ecclesiastic 25 461 Dr. De Burgh stands quite apart from the whole herd of polemical Apocalypticists.
1876 P. Fairbairn et al. tr. W. J. Schröder Bk. Prophet Ezek. Expounded 376/1 in P. Schaff et al. tr. J. P. Lange et al. Comm. Holy Script.: O.T. XIII The conception of it [sc. the ‘millennial kingdom’] will necessarily be very different from what the imagination of many apocalypticists [Ger. Apokalyptiker], still adhering to the old Jewish sensuous tradition, dreams it to be.
1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 May 573/2 Kee stands in the tradition of those medieval apocalypticists for whom Constantine was the incarnation of Satan robed as an angel of light.
1991 Christianity Today 28 Oct. 26/3 When catastrophic bombs could fall at any moment, or the greenhouse effect could flood Manhattan within decades, you no longer have to believe in God to be an apocalypticist.
2002 D. S. New Holy War i. 4 The religious significance apocalypticists gave to anno Domini 2000..was misguided.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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