messiah
📖 Definitions
noun
A savior, liberator, or leader of a group or a cause.
💬 Usage Examples
“The Cult of the Shining City ... raised Trump on high like a faulty messiah, and as they lauded him with titles like ‘chosen one’, his blasphemous word became living gospel.” Jared Yates Sexton; Failing Upward: The Donald Trump Story; The Progressive (Madison, Wisconsin); Oct/Nov 2020.