prelapsarian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to the state of humanity before the biblical Fall

   The painting imagines a prelapsarian garden untouched by sin.

2. 2
   adj

   figurative: innocent, unspoiled, or belonging to an imagined earlier purity

   They described the remote valley as a prelapsarian paradise.

Formed from pre-, Latin lapsus, 'fall,' and -arian. The theological sense refers to the time before Adam and Eve's Fall; the figurative sense denotes imagined original innocence.

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