Etymology
Origin of pre-Adamite
Example Sentences
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Alas, he that speaks must use English, French, or some language which is partly conventional; and that pre-Adamite or Saturnian vernacular in which we are all trying to speak has no verbal sign.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
No discoveries, then, which geologists may make of pre-Adamite races of men, can at all affect the credit of Moses' account of the creation of Adam, and of the history of his family.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
As he stood before that pre-Adamite stone man, I got one good, long look at his face.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
That the history of the earth may be divided in this way into distinct periods, all pre-Adamite.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
All my impressions of them are summed in the epithet, often repeated, pre-Adamite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
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