Prelapsarian - What does it mean?
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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,
*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.
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As an adjective prelapsarian
is of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.prelapsarian
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* 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.