Prediluvian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Prediluvian is an adjective meaning Before the Flood; antediluvian.
Meaning
Before the Flood; antediluvian.
More Meanings
- One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.
Example Sentences
With only two exceptions the prediluvians lived into their tenth century.
When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.
[…] for the British have in 1,500 years progressed from an initial stage that was probably inferior to that of the prediluvians, and any shipbuilding that they learned from earlier races was a hindrance, not a help.
Word Forms
- prediluvians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prediluvial, preflood, postdiluvian, prebiblical, prelapsarian, pre-hexameral.
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