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
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 John William Dawson
A son of Heaven and not of man, Yima united the characteristics that Genesis divides between Adam and Noah, fathers both, the one of antediluvian, the other of postdiluvian humanity.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various
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 John William Dawson
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 Herman Melville
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