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pre-Adamite

[ pree-ad-uh-mahyt ]

noun

  1. a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
  2. a person who believes that there were people in existence before Adam.


adjective

  1. Also pre-A·dam·ic [] existing before Adam.
  2. of or relating to the pre-Adamites.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pre-Adamite1

First recorded in 1655–65; pre- + Adam + -ite 1
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Example Sentences

Oh those jagged mountains, rolled together like pre-Adamite beasts, and setting their teeth against the sky!

Where there is a good paying demand for pre-Adamite skulls, there will always be a good supply.

Geologists, accordingly, with their visual generosity of time, assigned them to the pre-Adamite period.

Hence, although he possibly antedates all living apostles of lady suffrage, he is presumably not a pre-Adamite.

The air is like that of a pre-Adamite ironing-day in full blast.

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