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

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

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

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 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