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Prelapsarian - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective prelapsarian

is of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.

prelapsarian

English

Alternative forms

* pre-lapsarian

Adjective

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  • 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,
  • Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
  • *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.
  • Synonyms

    * (Christianity) antelapsarian, superlapsarian, superlapsarian * (carefree period) halcyon

    Antonyms

    * postlapsarian

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (Lapsarianism) * (Fall of Man)

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.