postdiluvian
existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.
Origin of postdiluvian
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How to use postdiluvian in a sentence
It certainly presents itself in early postdiluvian times as the first representative and teacher of art and material civilization.
The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science | John William DawsonI have referred above only to the question of historic or postdiluvian man.
The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science | John William DawsonHe began adroitly with the only remaining family; swept the postdiluvian peoples into midnight heathenism.
Is the Devil a Myth? | C. F. WimberlyWhen we leave the Deluge and come to the postdiluvian or neanthropic period, similar coincidences occur.
The Meeting-Place of Geology and History | Sir John William DawsonBut to have that late day enlivened with the vivacity of youth is much more, and in these postdiluvian times a rarity indeed.
The Works of William Cowper | William Cowper
British Dictionary definitions for postdiluvian
/ (ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən, -daɪ-) /
existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood
Origin of postdiluvian
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