Adjective : the prelapsarian innocence of Eden. ,a prelapsarian youth. From Dictionary.com.
But if her details at times defy belief, Schneider captures extremely well the spirit of a certain kind of prelapsarian camp experience, a combination of agony and exuberance. From Wordnik.com. [2007 July 17 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
And by all accounts, it's been restored to look just like its old, "prelapsarian" self. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
But if he did re-create the prelapsarian world of his childhood, it is no Eden, no Big Rock Candy Mountain. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
It's a prelapsarian moment; when the equipment is switched back on, your ears are almost assaulted by electricity. From Wordnik.com. [The Unthanks] Reference
The amount of work involved was presumably thought of as light and pleasant, prelapsarian life as easy and delightful. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
As in The Winter's Tale, it is seen as prelapsarian: it recuperates the imagined experience of the Garden of Eden before the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Those four magical, prelapsarian days of Berber hospitality were the inspiration for Aisha's redemptive journey in my third novel, Greater Love. From Wordnik.com. [Where I find inspiration …] Reference
A young couple, archly named Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry) and Manchester (Liam Browne), have created a private, prelapsarian world in a lock-up garage. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliantlove – review] Reference
Here was a prelapsarian landscape recreated in tranquillity and painted in a style which, for all its diversity and originality, was strongly traditional. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
His is a more realistic view of our role as custodians of the planet, even when we fail at the task, than one that yearns for wilderness in its prelapsarian state. From Wordnik.com. [At the Heart of Darkness] Reference
This meant the children returned to a prelapsarian state of immaculate guilelessness until, at the age of discretion, they would be held accountable for actual sins. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
In Mr. Greene's telling, the Columbus Citizen-Journal, put out on the cramped mezzanine of a downtown building owned by the dominant Columbus Dispatch, was a prelapsarian Eden. From Wordnik.com. [Inky Reveries] Reference
The day itself, 29 July, 1981, was marked by a prelapsarian absence of cynicism. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He presumed that prelapsarian love-making was a more orderly affair than it is now. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The city of Johannesburg has many qualities but prelapsarian innocence isn't one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This week we'll have a look at some technical jargon to keep you in the loop. prelapsarian. From Wordnik.com. [no.stupid.answers] Reference
I presume the cabin he built was the Kaaba, since in spite of his prelapsarian name he appears to be Abraham. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
What they undoubtedly had was an acquired (prelapsarian) knowledge of good and evil with respect to the prohibition. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
Marvelous reading of Secretariat as a fantasy fable for Tea Partiers nostalgic for a prelapsarian American that never existed. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
You have returned to the prelapsarian world. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
He can seem so innocent, almost prelapsarian. From Wordnik.com. [Chesterbelloc] Reference
That vision now looks hopelessly prelapsarian. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Whatley: Financial Reform Won't Alter Capitalism's Icarus Trajectory] Reference
However, dealing, as I imagine they do, with the literature he himself regarded as prelapsarian (works of the early. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Crewe was a prelapsarian event. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
This is prelapsarian poppycock. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He was happy in this prelapsarian world, he says. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"dodecahedral", and "prelapsarian". From Wordnik.com. [The Mumpsimus] Reference
Not wanting to appear a jerk, the reviewer starts using adjectives like "solipsistic", "dodecahedral", and "prelapsarian". From Wordnik.com. [John Leonard (1939-2008)] Reference
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