Definition of Postlapsarian

1. Adjective. Pertaining to anything which follows a lapse or failure. ¹

2. Adjective. (Christianity) The state of being which followed the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postlapsarian

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postlapsarian

postinjection
postinoculation
postins
postintegration
postinvasion
postinvasive
postique
postiques
postirradiation
postischemic
postisolation
postjudice
postjudices
postlaminectomy
postlanding
postlapsarian (current term)
postlaunch
postlayoff
postlegislation
postlegislative
postless
postliberal
postliberation
postlike
postliminiary
postliterate
postlitigation
postlockout
postlude
postluded

Literary usage of Postlapsarian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the by Alexander Smellie (1904)
"... or postlapsarian Opinion, of Election and Reprobation ?" Still more decisively, he denied the right which the Assembly claimed, and which it was ..."

2. Dogmatic Theology by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1888)
"postlapsarian sins were violations of the moral law, not of the probationary law. Rom. 5 :13, 14 teaches that infants sinned in Adam against the ..."

3. Dogmatic Theology by William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1888)
"postlapsarian sins were violations of the moral law, not of the probationary law. Rom. 5 : 13, 14- teaches that infants sinned in Adam against the ..."

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