postlapsarian

Examples

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• In many religions, the postlapsarian state of humanity is marked by a struggle between good and evil.

• True, for Swift, the world and all its inhabitants are fallen and flawed; it is, after all, a postlapsarian age; but women are no more inherently defective than men.

  Fiction book (1991)

• "The only permanence in postlapsarian Nature is change and its promise of natural rebirth.

  Academic text (2006)

• In those states, potentiality appears to be limitless, but progress along the path of natural development leads inevitably to the bleak reality of the postlapsarian world: the natural maturity that prefigures mortality; full day, and the path's end in autumn, evening, and death.

  Academic text (2006)

• The human being's laughter, thus connected with the postlapsarian condition, becomes the signal of the need for redemption, rather than the achievement of redemption that Critchley and Weller theorize.

  Academic text (2017)

• The paradigmatically equivalent leaf-cure-flower, Eden, and dawn necessarily decline to states that have in common the fact that their duration is much longer than their deceptive initial appearance (for the green leaf, the season; for postlapsarian Eden, all human life; for day, all the hours but those of dawn).

  Academic text (2006)

• The compiler maps out a succession of disobediences from Satan's first treason to ordinary lust, but he offers as a guide for reading these events a framed discussion of postlapsarian embodiment.

  Academic text (1998)

• A concluding phrase glides from him—words, like a final postlapsarian and profane caress of the cock: "A boy as pretty as that can make me shoot three times."

  Academic text (1996)

• This expulsion of the First Parents into the postlapsarian world sets up the basic procession of the center panel, which focuses on the grasping of hay, the symbol of worldly goods with the overtones of vanity, since "all flesh is grass."

  Academic text (2001)

• Literature often explores themes of loss and redemption in the postlapsarian world following the Fall.

How Innocent

prelapsarian

• Literature

9.9

innocent

∞ 2.2

imperfect

73 3.5

postlapsarian

• Archaic

9.9

sinful

56 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology