Etymology
Origin of pre-Adamite
Example Sentences
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For it is not without significance that the pre-Adamite economists were almost without exception the urgent defenders of religious toleration.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph
Such insight is extraordinary enough in the pre-Adamite epoch; but even more remarkable are his psychological foundations.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph
The sedge, giving up all hope of being moistened by the salt waves, had died in great circles, which looked like mats of gray hair on some pre-Adamite monster’s buried head.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
Oh those jagged mountains," exclaims Mrs Browning, "rolled together like pre-Adamite beasts, and setting their teeth against the sky....
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
Some feign that he is Enoch: others dream He was pre-Adamite, and has survived Cycles of generation and of ruin.
From The Trembling of the Veil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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