单词 | pre-adamitism |
释义 | > as lemmaspre-ˈAdamitism pre-ˈAdamitism n. now historical (belief in or advocacy of) the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > other specific doctrine > [noun] pre-Adamitism1790 anhypostasia1850 fideism1885 perpetualism1905 1790 Monthly Rev. 3 543 The author adds a vindication of himself from an accusation of Pre-adamitism. 1880 A. Winchell Preadamites p. iii The central idea of the work is human preadamitism. 1998 Renaissance Q. 51 313 Snider turns to the problem of Adamic language..and to the seventeenth-century controversy about ‘pre-Adamitism’, i.e., that Adam was not the only source of succeeding generations. < as lemmas |
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