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  • adjective Of, relating to, or resembling Adam.

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Examples

  • A left-leaning social critic, Adamic is sympathetic to workers who rebelled against their employers.

    Terror in America From Another Era 2010

  • a first, to be called the Adamic, a second, to be called the Noachic;

    The Gist of Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • I think I detected a visible blush, though she found at that time a great deal to do in spreading bread and butter for James, and shuffling his plate; and, indeed, it was rather a vehement attack on her humility, since it gave her at least "angelic perfection," if not "Adamic" (to use Methodist technics).

    Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • And the snarl of my anger was blended with the snarls of beasts more ancient than the mountains, and the vocal madness of my child hysteria, with all the red of its wrath, was chorded with the insensate, stupid cries of beasts pre-Adamic and pregeologic in time.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Dynamite By Louis Adamic (1931) Louis Adamic 's "Dynamite" was — and remains — the only popular overview of the violent clashes that accompanied the flourishing of American industry from the Gilded Age through the New Deal.

    Terror in America From Another Era 2010

  • However, our carnal, unenlightened Adamic nature feels compelled to defend the image we have of God and good, and trying to manage these images has caused us to systematically put the planet in peril.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • "It's hard to find space to build on," says Donna Adamic, superintendent of Cicero's elementary school district.

    Possible air hazards rarely considered in plans for schools 2008

  • Finding the “Adamic language” — the names Adam gave to stuff in the Garden of Eden — was a perennial preoccupation of Renaissance magi, for instance.

    Obama’s belief in the power of words continues 2010

  • However, our carnal, unenlightened Adamic nature feels compelled to defend the image we have of God and good, and trying to manage these images has caused us to systematically put the planet in peril.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • However, our carnal, unenlightened Adamic nature feels compelled to defend the image we have of God and good, and trying to manage these images has caused us to systematically put the planet in peril.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

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