Prelapsarian

/pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/ · adjective

Meaning

(Judaism, Christianity) Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled..

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It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.

Back in those ancient, prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn’t even been invented yet.

Can you really turn a few keyboards outside London's landmarks into the equivalent of a pub honky-tonk for a good old knees-up; a 50s living room where the family would gather around the piano every evening, in some prelapsarian vision of the olden days […]?

Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.

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