postdiluvian
/pohst-di-loo-vee-uhn/US // ˌpoʊst dɪˈlu vi ən //UK // (ˌpəʊstdɪˈluːvɪən, -daɪ-) //
后的迪鲁瓦人,后的迪鲁瓦,后期的,后的迪鲁威
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who lived after the Biblical Flood.
Examples
It certainly presents itself in early postdiluvian times as the first representative and teacher of art and material civilization.
I have referred above only to the question of historic or postdiluvian man.
He began adroitly with the only remaining family; swept the postdiluvian peoples into midnight heathenism.
When we leave the Deluge and come to the postdiluvian or neanthropic period, similar coincidences occur.
But to have that late day enlivened with the vivacity of youth is much more, and in these postdiluvian times a rarity indeed.
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