Adamic
[uh-dam-ik, ad-uh-mik]
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adjective
pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.
Also A·dam·i·cal.
Origin of Adamic
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Historical Examples of adamic
It was just the place and time for my Adamic air-bath and flesh-brushing from head to foot.
Complete Prose WorksWalt Whitman
The voice of the fathers was altogether against the possibility of their Adamic descent.
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2)John William Draper
He ascribes the purity of the Adamic church to this condition, and its degeneracy and destruction, to the loss of it.
History of American SocialismsJohn Humphrey Noyes
Therefore he feared not, but with that old Adamic strain in his nature, really yearned for the battle.
Deerfoot in The MountainsEdward S. Ellis
The drawings and jests that did not leave much to be filled out, adorned many a German page with an Adamic candor.
Villa ElsaStuart Henry