preadamite
Britishnoun
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a person who believes that there were people on earth before Adam
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a person assumed to have lived before Adam
adjective
Example Sentences
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The absolute lack of any sense of sin gives even the most scandalous scenes in Congreve's plays a pagan air of preadamite innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
If I were you I would sink a prospect shaft below the vertical slide where the old red brimstone and preadamite slag cross-cut the malachite and intersect the schist.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
For a full hour an unhappy preadamite man writhed and glued himself against the face of that cliff, descending and reascending by new lines, but always checked by a straight wall about 150 ft. up.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
I thought I could see floating on the surface of the waters enormous chelonia, preadamite tortoises, resembling floating islands.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
Others give them a very great age and claim them to belong to preadamite man.
From Mound-Builders by Smyth, William J.
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