postdiluvian

[ pohst-di-loo-vee-uhn ]

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.

noun

1. a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.

postdiluvian

/ -daɪ-; ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən /

adjective

1. existing or occurring after the biblical Flood

noun

1. a person or thing existing after the biblical Flood

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdiluvian¹

1670–80; post- + diluvian ( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of postdiluvian¹

C17: from post- + diluvian, from Latin diluvium deluge, flood

Example Sentences

It certainly presents itself in early postdiluvian times as the first representative and teacher of art and material civilization.

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I have referred above only to the question of historic or postdiluvian man.

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He began adroitly with the only remaining family; swept the postdiluvian peoples into midnight heathenism.

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When we leave the Deluge and come to the postdiluvian or neanthropic period, similar coincidences occur.

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But to have that late day enlivened with the vivacity of youth is much more, and in these postdiluvian times a rarity indeed.

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