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Messianic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to a messiah: messianic hopes.

adj. Of or characterized by messianism: messianic nationalism.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a messiah, the Messiah.

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling messianism (Messianism).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or relating to the Messiah.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Relating or pertaining to the Messiah, or to any one supposed to exercise the office of a Messiah: as, the Messianic prophecies or psalms; Messianic pretensions.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance

Word Usage

"Snowsell’s use of the word messianic is telling, particularly when applied to someone like nineteen-year-old Carlos Torres, who tells me “Morrissey is like God” and is “immortal.”"

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Atlantic Germanic Hispanic Magellanic Oceanic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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