Postlapsarian vs Prelapsarian - What's the difference?
postlapsarian | prelapsarian | Antonyms |
Pertaining to anything which follows a lapse or failure.
(Christianity) The state of being which followed the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the .
Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
* 2004 , Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel , page 4,
*2009 , Tom Service, The Guardian , 1 Jun 2010:
*: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 , "The perils of constitution-worship", The Economist , 23 Sep 2010:
*:Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
Prelapsarian is a antonym of postlapsarian.
Prelapsarian is a related term of postlapsarian.
As adjectives the difference between postlapsarian and prelapsarian
is that postlapsarian is pertaining to anything which follows a lapse or failure while prelapsarian is of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.postlapsarian
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Alternative forms
* post-lapsarianAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* (Christianity) sublapsarian, infralapsarianAntonyms
* prelapsarianSee also
* (Fall of Man) * (Lapsarianism)prelapsarian
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Alternative forms
* pre-lapsarianAdjective
(-)- Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.