messianism
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- noun
- /ˈmɛsɪəˌnɪzəm/
- Many people believe that messianism can inspire social change and unite communities around a common cause.
- weak messianism
- Jewish messianism
Examples
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Bolshevik messianism led the movement to persist even when Russia's political and social order was stable.
Academic text (2008) -
On a tacit assumption of weak messianism, the Divine must usher the worldly affairs at the time of revolutionary change.
Academic text (2016) -
Messianism is coming from a place of success, not weakness.
Academic text (1996) -
Curious messianisms that surface from time to time in the Middle East.
Academic text (1991) -
Ahmadinejad's messianism is no ploy; it is very serious indeed.
Academic text (2008) -
It's liberal Jews who are in the grip of a religious dogma, secular messianism.
Blog text (34) -
But at the time, the path of Christian messianism was not clearly destined to be a loser in the intra-socialist debate.
Blog text (5) -
Mesbah-Yazdi is not the only senior cleric who endorses Ahmadinejad's messianism.
Academic text (2008) -
He's written a book about messianism, and in the book he argues fairly convincingly that Nati didn't have a son.
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Too many of their countries' citizens, meanwhile, are content to allow these leaders to proceed, perhaps seeing their messianism and demagoguery as the exit from the prevailing regional labyrinth of underdevelopment.
Academic text (2011)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Messianism comes from Messiah, which comes from the Hebrew mashiach meaning 'anointed one', the same idea behind the English word anoint, which means to put oil on someone to show they are chosen. So messianism is the belief that a person or group will bring 'salvation' or a great change to the world.