Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve
Etymologies
- pre- + Latin lāpsus, fall; see lapse + -arian.
Examples
“If few would wish to return to the limitations of that era, it is our awareness of their subsequent fate that allows us to cherish the seaside resort of yesteryear as a kind of prelapsarian realm of carefree fun.”
The Guardian: Britons renew their love of seaside resorts as cost of holidays abroad soars
“For a generation raised on divorce, the Trillins — who married in 1965, just before the marriage-hopping baby boomers came of age — represent a kind of prelapsarian parental ideal.”
“But if her details at times defy belief, Schneider captures extremely well the spirit of a certain kind of prelapsarian camp experience, a combination of agony and exuberance.”
“And by all accounts, it's been restored to look just like its old, "prelapsarian" self.”
“Those four magical, prelapsarian days of Berber hospitality were the inspiration for Aisha's redemptive journey in my third novel, Greater Love.”
“The thoughtful, never too literal visual narrative employed Viola's characteristic imagery of water, fire, sea, night-time forests, distant horizons which come slowly nearer, and humans in ritualistic or biblically inspired poses: prelapsarian, baptismal, transcendent.”
“There was a lot to the atmosphere, not least the pungent dark tobacco in Gauloises and Gitanes cigarettes, the smell of which lingered everywhere in those prelapsarian days.”
“He himself is abjectly fallen, yet he retains a strange prelapsarian innocence and honesty.”
The Wall Street Journal: Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
“Lifting the crushing debt burden off Irish, Portuguese and Greek shoulders is what's needed to take these economies back to a prelapsarian idyll.”
“The work does not wax nostalgic for some prior, idyllic, prelapsarian climate but rather accepts imperfection as a given of the human condition.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prelapsarian’.
-
Collected Words - List 2
I've been saving these words FOR YEARS. Now, I've found Wordie
gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
-
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...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
-
Before and After the Fall
Arcadia to Apocalypse
prelapsarian, arcadian, armageddon, paradise lost, apocalypse, eden, edenic, golden age, end of the world, garden of eden, arcadia, antediluvian and 5 more...
-
moshe's list
prelapsarian, ear-rent, fusty, fray, foible, smug, abeyance, misandry, inkhorn, incarnate, argot
-
Originventory
Beformitables; previousness, past-referents, and origins.
erstwhile, formication, quondam, atavistic, umquhile, yestreen, hesternal, hesternopothia, pridian, ere, retrophilia, ante mortem and 72 more...
-
aphaziak's list
Word Infatuations
prelapsarian, tricksy, podophthalmia, paregoric, struldbrug, econorrhea, transmundane, hoyden
bilby Have we hit the ground yet? Dec 16, 2008
Prolagus What if you don't believe in the fall of humankind, either? Dec 16, 2008
aphaziak prelapsarian - characteristic of or belonging to the time or state before the fall of humankind
More accurate, for those of us who aren't firm believers in Adam and Eve. :) Dec 15, 2008
reesetee Good idea, adoarns!
*waits* Dec 19, 2007
adoarns This begs to be put in a list with antediluvian, edenic, arcadian, pre-nine-eleven, xanadu, shangri-la, and others. Dec 19, 2007