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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
fall ofman frominnocence , especially to the role ofwomen in that fall. - noun One who believes that mankind has fallen from a better state.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Marionette Theater ], had cast the coincidentia in lapsarian-mythic terms of
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Oh I know, post-lapsarian; I am definitely conscious of my fall from an edenic state of grace!
Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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Lisa Adams's trove of work suggests a post lapsarian, so-what way to make the best of it.
James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection James Scarborough 2011
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Lisa Adams's trove of work suggests a post lapsarian, so-what way to make the best of it.
James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection James Scarborough 2011
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Both Munif and Achebe present a somewhat pre-lapsarian view of the original societies.
Linkspam for 17-6-2009 nwhyte 2009
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But Porter's present day is post-lapsarian, as his title poem, with its echo of John Lennon's apparent hubris, suggests.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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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,
Last of the Time Lords Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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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.
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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 2006
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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 2006
amcd56 commented on the word lapsarian
somebody want to define this for me?
June 26, 2007
muamor commented on the word lapsarian
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".
June 26, 2007
aischrolater commented on the word lapsarian
From Latin, lapsare, to slip or stumble, hence "the fall".
October 31, 2007