Usually means: Belief in a thousand-year reign.
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  1. chiliasm: Merriam-Webster
  2. chiliasm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chiliasm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chiliasm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chiliasm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chiliasm, chiliasm: Wordnik
  7. chiliasm: Wiktionary
  8. chiliasm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chiliasm: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Chiliasm, chiliasm: Dictionary.com
  11. chiliasm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Chiliasm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Chiliasm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chiliasm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. chiliasm: Rhymezone
  16. chiliasm: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Chiliasm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chiliasm: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chiliasm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. chiliasm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. chiliasm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chiliasm: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chiliasm: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Chiliasm)

noun:  Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.
noun:  Alternative form of chiliasm [Belief in an earthly thousand-year period of peace and prosperity, sometimes equated with the return of Jesus for that period.]

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