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messianic

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Etymology

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From Messiah +‎ -n- +‎ -ic.

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messianic (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a messiah or the Messiah.
    • 2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Speaking this week, Pope Francis sent a thinly veiled warning about the dangers of “pied piper of Hamelin”-style populists and “messianic clowns”. “There is only one Messiah,” the pope said, without naming Milei.
  2. Of, relating to, or resembling messianism.
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