prelapsarian

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What they undoubtedly had was an acquired (prelapsarian) knowledge of good and evil with respect to the prohibition.

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  • Alfabet (1981) is a book-length poem using two reticulating systems: the alphabet (that adamic, prelapsarian state of language, as Roland Barthes suggests, because it is pre-word & pre-syntax, & thus before misuse, lying, rhetoric, polysemy are possible) & the Fibonacci series (where each number is the sum of the two previous ones, i.e.: 1,2,3,5,8,13,34,47,81,128 ...) —  Nomadics
  • "[T] his tale is as notable for its evocation of a prelapsarian New York as it is for Marsh's ability to sustain interest in a story with a known conclusion," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • He presumed that prelapsarian love-making was a more orderly affair than it is now. —  The Guardian World News
  • In this period, Reformed covenant theology also reached its highest level of development articulating a pre-temporal covenant of redemption (pactum salutis), a temporal prelapsarian covenant of works (or covenant of life, covenant of nature, or legal covenant), and a covenant of grace with the elect administered in a series of covenants through the history of redemption. —  Green Baggins
  • Its care and attention to period detail can be found in the McDonald's ad and its harking back to a prelapsarian era seems to be inspiring not just commercials but packaging and even product development, too. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
 

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  1. pre- + Latin lāpsus, fall; see lapse + -arian.
 

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