prelapsarian

Examples

• All

• The pastoral asylum that Mirbeau often pictures is not a prelapsarian paradise but a decadent conceit, a topological figure for the suicide of creativity.

  Academic text (1997)

• The addressee, made present like the prelapsarian Adam, is not meant to answer, but rather is animated just enough to appear as if s/he could answer.

  Academic text (1994)

• The resurrected Jesus is not restored to a prelapsarian condition.

  Academic text (2009)

• In the concluding paragraph of his essay, Soul acknowledged that we cannot reverse history and restore the world to a prelapsarian past.

  Academic text (2012)

• The opening discussion describes Adam's and Eve's state of prelapsarian sexual purity in terms that can only approximate the condition, the innocence of small boys concerning sexual self-consciousness:

  Academic text (1998)

• Westerners distrust consumption, he argues, because they believe that materialism has contributed to the degradation of cultural life and social customs that existed in an imprecise prelapsarian past.

  Academic text (1998)

• In her painting, she captured the prelapsarian beauty of nature, untouched by modern civilization.

• The story illustrated a prelapsarian world, where humans lived in harmony with nature and each other.

• His writing evoked a prelapsarian innocence, reflecting a simpler time before societal complexities emerged.

Synonyms

A

Adamic

vsprelapsarian

• Literature

1 9.9

Relating to Adam or to the simple state of people before they did wrong

is specific to the time before the Fall as a distinct state

Antonyms

P

postlapsarian

• Archaic

9.9

About the state of the world after people lost their original innocence

C

corrupted

5.1

Dishonest and morally ruined because of wrong actions

How Innocent

prelapsarian

• Literature

9.9

pristine

63 5.1

unspoiled

11 3.9

innocent

∞ 2.2

naive

312 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology