Pre-adamite

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of any race that predates Adam.
  2. 2
    A believer in pre-Adamitism.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a race that predates Adam; pre-human.

    "I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

Example

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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

Etymology

From pre- + Adamite.

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