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diluvian

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or connected with a deluge

How To Use diluvian In A Sentence

  • Irritable said, "Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters. Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3
  • And upon the top of that one of the stone pillars supporting the gate which I could see, stood a creature of stone, whether natant, volant, passant, couchant, or rampant, I could not tell, only it looked like something terrible enough for a quite antediluvian heraldry. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
  • Sally Keeble, MP for Northampton North, thought the ban epitomised  'the complete nonsense of an institution that won't move on', and Barbara Follett, MP for Stevenage, talked of 'antediluvian' attitudes. Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography
  • Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
  • Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition.
  • One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods.
  • antediluvian ideas
  • So far as he was concerned, all animal products were organic -- an attitude Nadia found hopelessly antediluvian. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • The term hapax legomenon), and could mean a lost species of tree, an antediluvian composite, or a lost art of producing wood for shipbuilding. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • My mother has some hopelessly antediluvian ideas about the role of women.
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