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Definition of Postdiluvians
1. postdiluvian [n] - See also: postdiluvian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postdiluvians
Literary usage of Postdiluvians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"COMPARISON BETWEEN ADAM AND THE postdiluvians. It is written, "And the Lord came
down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded" (Gen. ..."
2. The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of by Samuel Shuckford (1808)
"... among these postdiluvians. 2. They did not omit his name through ... before the
Flood) amongst the postdiluvians, and having no numbers for his name, ..."
3. The Classical Journal (1821)
"... that the worship of the heavenly host was antediluvian ; if so, it was handed
down by tradition through the sons of Ham to the primitive postdiluvians. ..."
4. Mesopotamia and Assyria by James Baillie Fraser (1842)
"the Tower of Babel, and the first city of the postdiluvians 7 Do any one of the
mounds which now meet the traveller's eye represent the relics of that ..."
5. Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the by George Stanley Faber (1818)
"This I take to be a poetical mode of relating, that a powerful combination of
the early postdiluvians attempted to rear an enormous ..."