"premillennialism" meaning in English

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          "text": "Premillennialism stressed division and separation within society, to gather in the elect, and its frostiness to Enlightenment projects of social reform contributed to that peculiar process by which ‘liberal’ has become a word of abuse in the United States, in sharp contrast to its esteem in European society.",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "word": "千禧年前論"
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