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Millennium

A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

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Anniversary 76% connected

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast.

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Doctrine 76% connected

Teaching; instruction.

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Ism 76% connected

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Philosophy 76% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Millenary 74% connected

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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Millenary 74% connected

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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Century 70% connected

A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

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Millenary 92% connected

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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