单词 | diluvianism |
释义 | > as lemmasdiˈluvianism diˈluvianism n. a theory which attributes certain phenomena to a universal deluge. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > [noun] > flood or aqueous diluvianism1816 Neptunianism1830 Neptunism1842 Wernerianism1892 1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. 272 The cosmogony of the Virginians seems also to be mingled with diluvianism. 1885 Whitney in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 765/2 Linguistic philology has been..created..out of the crude observations and wild deductions of earlier times, as truly as chemistry out of alchemy, or geology out of diluvianism. < as lemmas |
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