How To Use prelapsarian In A Sentence
- The same condition is true for ‘Photos of a Salt Mine,’ in which prelapsarian innocence must yield to the reality of the fallen world.
- A yearning for its own prelapsarian state was built into punk's ethos. The Times Literary Supplement
- Adam's naming of the beasts in Genesis 8, recalled by Milton in Paradise Lost VIII: 352-54, evokes the power of prelapsarian language to connect the mind with creation.
- Jim's conviction that ‘some memories are realities’ is infused with a deep, nostalgic longing for a prelapsarian past, a time before disillusionment.
- Maybe heatwaves worked better in this prelapsarian era, for today they are nothing but ghastly. Times, Sunday Times
- In keeping with his prelapsarian innocence, this ideal male is shown without the potentially dangerous sign of his sexuality.
- These were - so the pamphlets alleged - a radical sect during the English Revolution, whose most striking tenet was that the attainment of a sanctified state involved the adoption of the prelapsarian nakedness of humanity's first father.
- In a sense, then, Traherne agrees with Sidney's contentions, that a poet can show an objective - golden and prelapsarian - world.
- It was as if pure form represented something innocent and unspoilt; a prelapsarian state. The Times Literary Supplement
- The elves constantly hark back to an earlier, prelapsarian world. Times, Sunday Times
