postdiluvian

American  

[pohst-di-loo-vee-uhn] / ˌpoʊst dɪˈlu vi ən /

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.

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noun

1. a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.

postdiluvian British  

/ -daɪ-, ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən /

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the biblical Flood

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noun

1. a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood

Etymology

Origin of postdiluvian

1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def. )

Example Sentences

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

It also shows that the idea of long creative periods as equivalents of the Mosaic days must, in the infancy of the postdiluvian world, have been very widely diffused.

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

Antediluvian man—antediluvian nature, is to be imaged as nobler in every respect, more sublime and more pure than postdiluvian man, and postdiluvian nature.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

It certainly presents itself in early postdiluvian times as the first representative and teacher of art and material civilization.

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

I have referred above only to the question of historic or postdiluvian man.

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