préadamisme
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From préadamite + -isme.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
préadamisme m (uncountable)
- belief that mankind existed before Adam
- A partir du XVIIIe siècle, le préadamisme devient majoritaire mais est largement polygéniste.
- From the eighteenth century, pre-Adamism became the majority view, although it was largely a polygenist pre-Adamism.
Further reading[edit]
- “préadamisme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.