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Definition of Prelapsarian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve.
Definition of Prelapsarian
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prelapsarian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelapsarian
Literary usage of Prelapsarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society (1771)
"... our true, prelapsarian nature. The twelfth-century push toward the intellectual
assimilation of technology continued into the thirteenth century. ..."
2. Transcending Boundaries: Natural Resource Management from Summit to Sea edited by Rabel J. Burdge (2001)
"What I call "prelapsarian" visions are based on ancient lifestyles of ...
The prelapsarian visions sometimes seem inadequately sensitive to animal welfare ..."
3. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"The same Adamite doctrine—a prelapsarian perfection symbolised by nudity—was
taught by John Picard in Bohemia, and a flourishing sect of' Adamites' arose ..."
4. Papers of the American Society of Church History by American Society of Church History (1921)
"He represents inability as a moral impotency ; reprobation as a negative
predestination. His views of predestination afre prelapsarian, as opposed to ..."
5. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment by Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler (2003)
"... for whom ancient republic and its principle of virtue, like some prelapsarian
humanity irretrievably lost and impossible to recreate in the contemporary ..."
6. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"The same Adamite doctrine—a prelapsarian perfection symbolised by nudity—was
taught by John Picard in Bohemia, and a flourishing sect of' Adamites' arose ..."
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