English

Alternative forms

• pseudo-Messiah

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 2012, p. 129:

     The reign of Elizabeth produced a small army of pseudo-Messiahs.

   • 1990, Bryon L Sherwin, In Partnership with God, p. 240:

     There is evidence that he was a Sabbatean, a follower of the seventeenth-century Jewish pseudomessiah, Shabbatai Zevi.

   • 2013, Frank N. Magill (Ed.), The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, p. 463:

     Ferrar did not rule as a tyrant, nor was he the pseudomessiah of a cult.