Adamite

American  

[ad-uh-mahyt] / ˈæd əˌmaɪt /

noun

1. a descendant of Adam; human being.

2. a nudist.

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Adamite British  

/ ˈædəˌmaɪt /

noun

1. a human being

2. a nudist, esp a member of an early Christian sect who sought to imitate Adam

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Other Word Forms

• Adamitic
  adjective
• Adamitical
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Adamite

First recorded in 1620–30; Adam + -ite ¹

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Example Sentences

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Adamite

When she sees her Salibrand so unmodiously accoutred, she will jeer him out of his periwig, and render him an Adamite cap-a-pie.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

That origin may date from a period so distant, that it preceded the Adamite creation.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker

I am sometimes almost tempted to declare myself Adamite to escape it.

From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The effects of the Adamite curse are to be distinguished from signs of its immediate activity.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin

With the exception of the Adamite, whose garb is that of Adam in the Garden of Eden, all ten wear doublets.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

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