antediluvianism

His queue, carefully powdered and plaited, stood out stiff from the back of his head, as if in perpetual protest against any new-fangled notions of hair-dressing; his livery, scrupulously neat and well brushed, was threadbare and of an antediluvian cut, and his whole appearance was that of highly respectable antediluvianism.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

The rather extreme idea of walking across this Flowery Land came to me early in the year 1909, although for many years I had cherished the hope of seeing Interior China ere modernity had robbed her and her wonderful people of their isolation and antediluvianism, and ever since childhood my interest in China has always been considerable.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Less good is the fact that the Administration has signaled both to a domestic audience and to an international one that it is prepared to engage in economic antediluvianism and might seriously consider the implementation of harmful protectionist policies in the future.

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