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preterist

[pret-er-ist] /ˈprɛt ər ɪst/ Theology
noun
1.
a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled.
Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
adjective
2.
of or relating to the preterists.
Origin
1960-1965
1960-65; preter- + -ist
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n.

"one who favors the past," 1864 (as a theological term from 1843, "one who holds that the Apocalyptic prophecies have begun to be fulfilled"), from preter- + -ist.

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