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Adamite

[ad-uh-mahyt]

noun

a descendant of Adam; human being.

a nudist.

Origin:
1620–30; Adam + -ite¹

Related forms

Ad·am·it·ic

[ad-uh-mit-ik] , Ad·am·it·i·cal, adjective

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Adamite (ˈædəˌmaɪt)

—n
1.	a human being
2.	a nudist, esp a member of an early Christian sect who sought to imitate Adam

Adamitic

—*adj*

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"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

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