Fall of Man
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- noun
- Literature
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Caída del Hombre
- Frollo's doomed inability to regain the Adamic state may be studied in the light of the fall of man, as depicted in Paul Valery's "Ebauche d'un serpent."
Examples
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According to the Bible, the Fall of Man occurred when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
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The concept of the Fall of Man illustrates the loss of innocence that humanity experienced after disobeying God.
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Talk about the fall of man.
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It shows the fall of man in the second generation of man!
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In his later chapter on the Fall of Man, he does not discuss the impact of the Fall on the nonhuman creation.
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The god of this fallen world is Satan (Genesis, fall of man).
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It is a result of the Fall of man, not a set of psychological inclinations.
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"About all we've discovered so far is that Zalasta's been responsible for nearly every catastrophe in human history since the fall of man.
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Rich and poor alike, the learned and the ignorant, one and all, are partakers of this sad and painful inheritance of the fall of man.
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The Fall of Man—or Original Sin—was not formalized until the time of St. Augustine.
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Synonyms
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An event in the Bible when Adam and Eve disobey God and bring sin into the world
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'fall' (a descent or decline) combined with 'man' (humankind) gives a general sense of humanity's downfall that a B1 learner could infer, the full theological meaning—specifically the Adam and Eve narrative, loss of innocence, and exile from Eden—is culturally and scripturally specific and not derivable from the words alone. Learners can grasp a broad idea of decline but cannot predict the precise doctrinal event without prior exposure.
Etymology
Fall of Man comes from the Bible story where Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit and are forced out of the Garden of Eden. Here fall is like falling out of a safe place and man means humans, so the phrase now refers to 'the loss of innocence' and being 'sent out' from a perfect state.