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prediluvians

prediluvians is the plural of prediluvian.

Meaning of prediluvian

Noun

prediluvian (plural prediluvians)

  1. One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.
    • When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.1786 November, The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787, volume I, Salisbury: […] B. C. Collins, and by S. Crowder, in London, published 1788, page 173

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Questions about prediluvians

What is prediluvians the plural of?
Prediluvians is the plural of prediluvian.

Words near prediluvians in the dictionary

  1. predilutional
  2. predilutionally
  3. predilutions
  4. prediluvial
  5. prediluvian
  6. prediluvians
  7. predimension
  8. predimensions
  9. predimerize
  10. predimerized
  11. preding

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