pseudomessiah

English

Alternative forms

  • pseudo-Messiah

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ messiah.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsuːdəʊmɪˌsaɪə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsudoʊmɪˌsaɪə/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pseu‧do‧mes‧si‧ah

Noun

pseudomessiah (plural pseudomessiahs)

  1. A false Messiah; someone putatively claiming to be the Messiah.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 129:
      The reign of Elizabeth produced a small army of pseudo-Messiahs.
    • 1990, Bryon L Sherwin, In Partnership with God, page 240:
      There is evidence that he was a Sabbatean, a follower of the seventeenth-century Jewish pseudomessiah, Shabbatai Zevi.
    • 2013, Frank N. Magill, editor, The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, page 463:
      Ferrar did not rule as a tyrant, nor was he the pseudomessiah of a cult.
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