prelapsarian

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
20
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/ (UK)

Definition of prelapsarian

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Judaism, not-comparable)Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
    “It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.”
    “Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.”
    “Back in those ancient, prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn’t even been invented yet.”
    “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 […]?”
    “Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.”

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Etymology

From pre- + Latin lapsus (“fall”) + -arian.

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