Adamic

[ uh-dam-ik, ad-uh-mik ]

/ əˈdæm ɪk, ˈæd ə mɪk /

adjective

pertaining to or suggestive of Adam.

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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.

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Also A·dam·i·cal.

Origin of Adamic

First recorded in 1650–60; Adam + -ic

OTHER WORDS FROM Adamic

A·dam·i·cal·ly, adverbpost-A·dam·ic, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for adamic

Faith may now be exercised without a jar to the moral life and without embarrassment to the Adamic ego.
The Pursuit of God|A. W. Tozer
It was just the place and time for my Adamic air-bath and flesh-brushing from head to foot.
Complete Prose Works|Walt 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 Socialisms|John Humphrey Noyes

Therefore he feared not, but with that old Adamic strain in his nature, really yearned for the battle.
Deerfoot in The Mountains|Edward S. Ellis

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