pre-Adamite

American  

[pree-ad-uh-mahyt] / priˈæd əˌmaɪt /

noun

1. a person supposed to have existed before Adam.

2. a person who believes that there were people in existence before Adam.

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adjective

1. Also pre-Adamic existing before Adam.

2. of or relating to the pre-Adamites.

Etymology

Origin of pre-Adamite

First recorded in 1655–65; pre- + Adam + -ite ¹

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Example Sentences

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pre-Adamite

As the dives are become subject to thy beck, I expected to have found thee on the throne of the pre-Adamite kings.”

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

It is the call of the wild to which the pre-Adamite monkey in our nature responds.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon

Quite a Noah's Ark sort of person,—a fossil of the pre-Adamite period.

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

Enjoy whatever this palace affords: the treasures of the pre-Adamite Sultans, their bickering sabres, and those talismans that compel the Dives to open the subterranean expanses of the mountain of Kaf, which communicate with these.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

That the pre-Adamite periods were of enormous duration.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson

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