diluvial
adjective
pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
diluvian
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a variation of
diluvial.
Example Sentences
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Might they not have been of diluvian origin?
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Phillip Parker King
John G., on that diluvian night, was twenty-two years old, and still every whit as clean-limbed, alert, and plucky as his salad days had seen him.
From Short Stories of Various Types by Laura F. Freck
Therefore we must needs acknowledge the diluvian tradition to be really indigenous in Mexico and not an invention of missionaries.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
The diluvian soil of the Michigan Peninsula is thus added to the wide area of the mastodonic period. 2d.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
And still the doe eludes the raging hounds, And still the youths press onward toward the woods, Though the world shudders with diluvian sounds And the rain streams in undulating floods.
From The Five Books of Youth by Robert Hillyer
