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Definition of Antediluvian patriarch
1. Noun. Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antediluvian Patriarch
Literary usage of Antediluvian patriarch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"... of apocalyptic prediction, who prophesied in the name of the antediluvian
Patriarch.™15 "Antediluvian," truly; but if the phraseology of the text dates ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1840)
"As the descendants of the antediluvian patriarch, of the third and fourth genera.
lions removed, some east of the Euphrates, and others west and south, ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1839)
"... to deduce the latter epoch from that part of the last antediluvian patriarch's
life which best suited the scheme of the computer. ..."
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