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Definition of prelapsarian in English: prelapsarianadjective ˌpriːlapˈsɛːrɪənˌprēlapˈserēən Theology literary Characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoilt. 〔神学〕〈诗/文〉人类堕落前的；清纯而未遭破坏的 a prelapsarian Eden of astonishing plenitude 人类堕落以前惊人富足的伊甸园。 Example sentencesExamples - Adam's naming of the beasts in Genesis 8, recalled by Milton in Paradise Lost VIII: 352-54, evokes the power of prelapsarian language to connect the mind with creation.
- Its warm sea - an invitation to swim rather than a test of stoicism - its beautiful beaches and its year-round temperate climate seem like a prelapsarian idyll.
- In a sense, then, Traherne agrees with Sidney's contentions, that a poet can show an objective - golden and prelapsarian - world.
- Once these burdens had been lifted by the redemptive power of revolution, it would be possible to construct a free and equal society based upon the prelapsarian goodness of human nature.
- The same condition is true for ‘Photos of a Salt Mine,’ in which prelapsarian innocence must yield to the reality of the fallen world.
- To the extent that the freedom of prelapsarian man survives the fall - and Milton is ambivalent about this - so does his end, which is not to found and hold office in republics, but to serve God out of the care to please him.
- The perfectly blue, puffy-clouded sky and bitsy little silos make for a prelapsarian vista only slightly altered by humans.
- These were - so the pamphlets alleged - a radical sect during the English Revolution, whose most striking tenet was that the attainment of a sanctified state involved the adoption of the prelapsarian nakedness of humanity's first father.
- On the one hand, the works contain neither persons nor artifacts that would establish a human scale; they evoke a world - prelapsarian or post-apocalyptic - divorced from human perspectives.
- In the prelapsarian situation, the existence of sexual distinction was unnoticed.
- With his belief in humanity as a state to be attained rather than granted, Overton considers political reformation crucial for regaining our prelapsarian humanness.
- In keeping with his prelapsarian innocence, this ideal male is shown without the potentially dangerous sign of his sexuality.
- But other early monastic texts hold out the hope of a different, nonviolent, world, one that restores the prelapsarian harmony between human beings and animals.
- Jim's conviction that ‘some memories are realities’ is infused with a deep, nostalgic longing for a prelapsarian past, a time before disillusionment.
- In the refrain of ‘poem,’ the speaker embraces the world of experience: she is adamant that she ‘shall never go back’ to the innocence of the prelapsarian state.
- One must not identify it, say, with the pure, prelapsarian humanity favored in medieval accounts of the incarnation.
OriginLate 19th century: from pre- 'before' + Latin lapsus, from labi 'to fall'. Rhymesagrarian, antiquarian, apiarian, Aquarian, Arian, Aryan, authoritarian, barbarian, Bavarian, Bulgarian, Caesarean (US Cesarean), centenarian, communitarian, contrarian, Darien, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equalitarian, establishmentarian, fruitarian, Gibraltarian, grammarian, Hanoverian, humanitarian, Hungarian, latitudinarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, millenarian, necessarian, necessitarian, nonagenarian, octogenarian, ovarian, Parian, parliamentarian, planarian, predestinarian, proletarian, quadragenarian, quinquagenarian, quodlibetarian, Rastafarian, riparian, rosarian, Rotarian, sabbatarian, Sagittarian, sanitarian, Sauveterrian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, topiarian, totalitarian, Trinitarian, ubiquitarian, Unitarian, utilitarian, valetudinarian, vegetarian, veterinarian, vulgarian Definition of prelapsarian in US English: prelapsarianadjectiveˌprēlapˈserēən Theology literary Characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoiled. 〔神学〕〈诗/文〉人类堕落前的；清纯而未遭破坏的 a prelapsarian Eden of astonishing plenitude 人类堕落以前惊人富足的伊甸园。 Example sentencesExamples - Adam's naming of the beasts in Genesis 8, recalled by Milton in Paradise Lost VIII: 352-54, evokes the power of prelapsarian language to connect the mind with creation.
- Jim's conviction that ‘some memories are realities’ is infused with a deep, nostalgic longing for a prelapsarian past, a time before disillusionment.
- In keeping with his prelapsarian innocence, this ideal male is shown without the potentially dangerous sign of his sexuality.
- But other early monastic texts hold out the hope of a different, nonviolent, world, one that restores the prelapsarian harmony between human beings and animals.
- The same condition is true for ‘Photos of a Salt Mine,’ in which prelapsarian innocence must yield to the reality of the fallen world.
- With his belief in humanity as a state to be attained rather than granted, Overton considers political reformation crucial for regaining our prelapsarian humanness.
- These were - so the pamphlets alleged - a radical sect during the English Revolution, whose most striking tenet was that the attainment of a sanctified state involved the adoption of the prelapsarian nakedness of humanity's first father.
- On the one hand, the works contain neither persons nor artifacts that would establish a human scale; they evoke a world - prelapsarian or post-apocalyptic - divorced from human perspectives.
- The perfectly blue, puffy-clouded sky and bitsy little silos make for a prelapsarian vista only slightly altered by humans.
- In the refrain of ‘poem,’ the speaker embraces the world of experience: she is adamant that she ‘shall never go back’ to the innocence of the prelapsarian state.
- One must not identify it, say, with the pure, prelapsarian humanity favored in medieval accounts of the incarnation.
- In the prelapsarian situation, the existence of sexual distinction was unnoticed.
- To the extent that the freedom of prelapsarian man survives the fall - and Milton is ambivalent about this - so does his end, which is not to found and hold office in republics, but to serve God out of the care to please him.
- In a sense, then, Traherne agrees with Sidney's contentions, that a poet can show an objective - golden and prelapsarian - world.
- Its warm sea - an invitation to swim rather than a test of stoicism - its beautiful beaches and its year-round temperate climate seem like a prelapsarian idyll.
- Once these burdens had been lifted by the redemptive power of revolution, it would be possible to construct a free and equal society based upon the prelapsarian goodness of human nature.
OriginLate 19th century: from pre- ‘before’ + Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to fall’. |