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prelapsarian
[ pree-lap-sair-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- Theology. occurring before the Fall:
the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
- characteristic of or pertaining to any innocent or carefree period:
a prelapsarian youth.
noun
prelapsarian
/ ˌːæˈɛəɪə /
adjective
- characteristic of or relating to the human state or time before the Fall
prelapsarian innocence
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prelapsarian1
Example Sentences
Even if you’re partial to the holiday season, and I am, this particular weekend can take on a prelapsarian feel.
It is prelapsarian, imbued with an innocence that we have lost forever.
To see the Broadway show is to be transported to a prelapsarian time before the wreckage of the Trump years, the murder of George Floyd and the Capitol Hill insurrection.
“Only music, only a Brahms symphony, comes close” to the sensation of those prelapsarian gallops, she writes.
Like much of her music, “Chemtrails” often bends backward to grasp at an elusive and irretrievable prelapsarian state.
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