prelapsarian en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From pre- + Latin lapsus (“fall”) + -arian.
Meanings
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(Judaism, not-comparable) Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
Back in those ancient, prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn’t even been invented yet.
2006 April 10, George Saunders, “Nostalgia”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2012:Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
2010 September 23, “The perils of constitution-worship”, in The Economist: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.
2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139: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 […]?
2010 June 1, Tom Service, The Guardian:Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
2004, Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, page 4:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pre-lapsarian | alternative | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
superlapsarian · halcyon (carefree period) · antelapsarian
Translations (8)
ru безгреховный (innocent, unspoiled) · hu bűnbeesés előtti (innocent, unspoiled) · hu romlatlan (innocent, unspoiled) · fi syntiinlankeemusta edeltävä (innocent, unspoiled) · fr prélapsarien (innocent, unspoiled) · ru догреховный (innocent, unspoiled) · hu édenkerti (innocent, unspoiled) · hu édeni (innocent, unspoiled)