postdiluvian
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of postdiluvian
1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The poem describes its own construction, as one remarkable detail after another is loaded into the “studio” to be preserved for postdiluvian use.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
Consequently the earlier revelations of the antediluvian and postdiluvian times must have been the common property of all races, and must have been associated with whatever elements of natural religion they had.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
It would strike us forcibly to realize that what seems to us now to be a pillar of heaven, was the patriarch’s stepping-stone from the antediluvian into the postdiluvian world.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Melville, Herman
Progress is continually being made in the decipherment and publication of these, and new facts are coming to light in consequence as to the religions of the early postdiluvian period.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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