prelapsarian

[pree-lap-sair-ee-uhn]

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adjective

Theology.��occurring before the Fall.
the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period.
a prelapsarian youth.
supralapsarian.

noun

supralapsarian.

prelapsarian

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adjective

characteristic of or relating to the human state or time before the Fall
prelapsarian innocence

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prelapsarian¹

First recorded in 1870–75; pre- + -lapsarian, as in infralapsarian, supralapsarian ( def. )

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Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.

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It was the prelapsarian age of the dumb phone, when we weren’t all taking photos of everything all the time and paparazzi were commanding six figures for shots of Angelina Jolie’s baby bump.

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Even if you’re partial to the holiday season, and I am, this particular weekend can take on a prelapsarian feel.

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It is prelapsarian, imbued with an innocence that we have lost forever.

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To see the Broadway show is to be transported to a prelapsarian time before the wreckage of the Trump years, the murder of George Floyd and the Capitol Hill insurrection.

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