postdiluvian
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of postdiluvian
1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def. )
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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
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 John William Dawson
We may therefore, having already at some length considered the postdiluvian age, take up the mode of occurrence of the remains of the earlier of the two races—that of the mammoth age.
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
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 John William Dawson
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