prelapsarian
- a of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve
- And the people he shows us with their Yankee rectitude, the weathered parchment of their faces and their Nordic inwardness seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the .
- Fixing a timeline for withdrawal isn't going to usher in a prelapsarian period of tranquility any more than it will make the violence worse.
- If the lovemaking in the director's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain represented a kind of prelapsarian idyll a state of innocence that can never be recaptured here the .