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

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postdiluvian

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

But upon the whole, the probability is strong that some other elevation, less lofty and steep, was the radiating point of the postdiluvian races of man and other animals.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

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 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