Sample sentences for ANTEDILUVIAN

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Definition

very old; or relating to the period before the biblical flood

Someone needs to replace her and her antediluvian ideas.

antediluvian = ancient

What antediluvian notions you have
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

antediluvian = very old; or relating to the period before the biblical flood

Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he by five years, was a married man, and had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup, and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson

antediluvian = very old (possibly jesting that they are from the period before the biblical flood)

antediluvian ideas
You are antediluvian anyway, with your Nietzsche ideas.
London, Jack -- Martin Eden
antediluvian man
Is it a bit more absurd than what you advocate, you machine-breaker, returning to the antediluvian ways of your forefathers?
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
There was something innocent and antediluvian about that broken crock, which quite pleased me.
Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
"You are right, my dear friend," he said, "yet what you say possesses, shall we call it, a somewhat antediluvian flavour."
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
It's—it's antediluvian, I tell you.
London, Jack -- Adventure
The streams were deep and slow, and there were holes of abysmal depth, where any kind and size of antediluvian monster could find a habitat.
Stoker, Bram -- The Lair of the White Worm
a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
I am an antediluvian, sir.
Dickens, Charles -- American Notes for General Circulation
told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.
Carroll, Lewis -- The Hunting of the Snark
In those antediluvian pre-jet days Toronto was as far away as Tokyo, and I gave a moan of despair.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
After breakfasting on a slice of antediluvian ham and an egg of uncertain age, he continues on his way.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
"Bones," I replied, "yes, certainly, the bones of antediluvian animals."
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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