prelapsarian
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From pre- + Latin lapsus (“fall”) + -arian.
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
Adjective
prelapsarian (not comparable)
- (Judaism, Christianity) Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
- 2004, Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, page 4:
- Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
- 1 June 2010, Tom Service, The Guardian:
- Can you really turn a few keyboards outside London's landmarks into the equivalent of a pub honky-tonk for a good old knees-up; a 50s living room where the family would gather around the piano every evening, in some prelapsarian vision of the olden days […] ?
- 23 September 2010, “The perils of constitution-worship”, in The Economist:
- Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
Synonyms
- (Christianity): antelapsarian, superlapsarian
- (carefree period): halcyon
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Translations
innocent, unspoiled
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See also
- Lapsarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fall of Man on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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