Translation for 'antediluvian' from English to French

antediluvian

antédiluvien {adj}

• The book is a collection of de Camp's early Pusadian tales, all of which are set in an antediluvian world patterned after Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age.
• A 2012 review into women's prisons in Scotland, conducted by former Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini described Cornton Vale as "a miserable place" and that conditions for prisoners were "antediluvian and appalling".
• Rabbinic tradition credits Ahijah with having lived a very long life, linking his life-span with that of antediluvian patriarchs such as Methuselah and Adam.
• "Seola" is an antediluvian novel published in 1878, written by Ann Eliza Smith. The publishers of the novel are Boston: Lee and Shepard, New York: Charles T. Dillingham.
• The Book of the Watchers (Ch IX) lists the angels who in antediluvian times interceded on behalf of mankind against the rogue spirits termed "the Watchers": Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel.

• This is the Weld-Blundell Prism which includes the antediluvian part of the composition and ends with the Isin dynasty.
• Robert Wodrow described him as "the last of the antediluvian Presbyterian ministers in this church".
• The first ten of these are called the antediluvian patriarchs, because they came before the Flood.
• The Irish Council for Civil Liberties said the report "cranks up the pressure" on the Government to reform Ireland's "antediluvian" abortion laws.
• Many, especially antediluvian, kings are credited with incredibly long reigns (counted in sars and nerah), as a result of which many scholars consider this work to be more artistic than historical.

• Early scientific attempts at reconstructing the history of the Earth were founded on the biblical narrative and thus used the term "antediluvian" to refer to a period understood to be essentially similar to the biblical one.
• Not all reviews were positive, "Monthly Film Bulletin" described the film as "an antediluvian farce of staggering witlessness and vulgarity".
• In some markets, such as Brazil, the original Besta had developed a very good reputation and had redefined a minivan market where its only competition was the antediluvian (in production since 1950) Volkswagen Kombi.
• These genii have all been interpreted as beings known as antediluvian sages, [...] or "apkallu" in Akkadian.