presentist

1. 1.

   a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time

   Broadertheologian

Other forms of presentist

plural

presentists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about presentist

What does presentist mean?

presentist means "a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time".

How many syllables are in presentist?

presentist has 3 syllables: pre-sen-tist. The stress falls on "pre".

Is presentist a common word?

presentist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.