prelapsarian
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/
prelapsarian (not comparable)
- 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.
- 2009, Tom Service, The Guardian, 1 Jun 2010:
- 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 [...]?
- 2010, "The perils of constitution-worship", The Economist, 23 Sep 2010:
- Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
- 2004, Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, page 4,
- (Christianity) antelapsarian, superlapsarian
- (carefree period) halcyon
- French: prélapsarien
- Russian: догреховный
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