Examples
“Marionette Theater ], had cast the coincidentia in lapsarian-mythic terms of”
“Oh I know, post-lapsarian; I am definitely conscious of my fall from an edenic state of grace!”
“Both Munif and Achebe present a somewhat pre-lapsarian view of the original societies.”
“Lisa Adams's trove of work suggests a post lapsarian, so-what way to make the best of it.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection
“But Porter's present day is post-lapsarian, as his title poem, with its echo of John Lennon's apparent hubris, suggests.”
“In order to say that, we have to [kind of] recognize that we might be clinging to some kind of scientifically pre-lapsarian [and even physiologically] conservatively reactionary stance, while at the same time, we really cannot imagine "ourselves" apart from the structure of a world that necessitates, as MKH writes,”
“By contrast, rural life has been stubbornly fixed in our collective imaginations for a long time, from Jefferson to Thoreau to even Hemingway, an American expression of the Edenic, pre-lapsarian state.”
“Imitating Volney and Gibbon, the narrator imagines a post-lapsarian Britain whose imperial glory has flickered and extinguished.”
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
“Furthermore, by the agency of the creative imagination, the narrator can also conjure up vivid imagery of a pre-lapsarian Greece, recovering the splendid vistas of a once glorious Athens from the ruins of time:”
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
“They had shown each other their lapsarian atavistic tastes, their need for the forest, for the difficult and solitary, for what [Catlin's] father called "the eternal verities ....”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lapsarian’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1073 more...
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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Magoo's list
I have no inkling for a description to my list. But I am sure I will think of one at some point.
cocoon, requiem, narrative, lapsarian, tonitruone, paradigm, effervesent
aischrolater From Latin, lapsare, to slip or stumble, hence "the fall". Oct 31, 2007
muamor I guess it means the fall of man - in the beginning - from the time of the paradise and the bad egg.. eh... sorry, apple, what Eve found from the very, very bad tree. This also might imply to the fall of women, too. Phew, thank god, the women are on the rise now, more than ever. Have you noticed?
Lapsus, in Finnish, on the other hand, means "mistake". Jun 26, 2007
amcd56 somebody want to define this for me? Jun 26, 2007