(belief in or advocacy of) the theory that a race of humans existed before Adam.

The condition or state of having no independent existence as a person, spec. with reference to the human nature of Christ as having no existence…

Any doctrine according to which all (or some) knowledge depends upon faith or revelation, and reason or the intellect is to be disregarded, as (a) =…

Belief in the permanent nature and validity of something, esp. as a political or religious system. Also: the quality of being perpetual; permanence.