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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The catastrophes which produced the secondary strata and diluvian depositions could not have been local and partial phenomena, but must have extended over the whole, or a great part of the surface, of the globe.
From Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher by Henry Morley
This egg is identical with the ark, and from it the diluvian patriarch was born.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
The most essential feature of all traditions properly called diluvian is wanting here.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
The earth, upon these occasions, might almost seem to be carried back to the remote period which has been called “the diluvian age.”
From Dick Sands, the Boy Captain by Ellen E. Frewer
To the storm succeeded one of those diluvian showers that have already been described.
From Willis the Pilot by Paul Adrien
