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
Others give them a very great age and claim them to belong to preadamite man.
From Mound-Builders by Smyth, William J.
"Did it not belong to some preadamite warrior?"
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
Hence, perhaps, the name of Suleymán is given to the universal monarchs of the preadamite Jinn; unless the story of his own universal dominion originated from confounding him with those kings of the Jinn.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
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
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