postmillennialadj.

1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 196 The Day of the real Second Advent, which my correspondent fully admits to be postmillennial.

1879 Princeton Rev. Mar. 425 The ‘post-millennial heresy’.

1892 Old & New Test. Student 14 252 The Second Advent is regarded as post-millenial..but it is stated that this matter is not distinctly referred to in the strictly prophetic part of the Apocalypse.

1909 Coshocton (Ohio) Daily Times 6 Oct. 3/2 All sorts of religion, Trinitarian and Unitarian, Calvinist and Armenian, post-millennial and pre-millennial, are in the eyes of the world just so many opinions of men.

1956 G. O'Brien Renaissance Poetics ii. 74 The Word, indeed, draws its strength from that same multiplicity and variety which characterizes the microcosm; this notion is evidenced in Nicholas' projection of post-millenial beatitude.

2005 Amer. Prospect (Nexis) Jan. 18 Postmillennial Protestantism inspired the Social Gospel movement of the late-19th and early-20th centuries and was allied with the new discipline of American social science.

1977 S. Kostof Architect 75 The architects who undertook the erection of post-millennial Romanesque churches had to be seasoned masters of construction.

1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 127/1 A postmillennial Gap store might be equipped with optical scanners that take waist, hip, length and other measurements, send them over a network and have the custom-tailored pants delivered within a matter of days.

2003 Time Out N.Y. 24 Apr. 191/1 The psychosexual stasis that pervades every postmillennial superpower.

1879 Princeton Rev. Mar. 425 Dr. Seiss..has described postmillennialism as papistic.

1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 111/1 A great deal, it appears, depends on whether one accepts pre-millennialism or post-millennialism.

1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation ii. 87 Postmillennialism continued to have influence, inspiring the Social Gospel movement of the turn of the century.