postlapsarian

[ pohst-lap-sair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

1. occurring or being after the Fall.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postlapsarian¹

1725–35; post- + -lapsarian, as in infralapsarian, supralapsarian ( def )

Example Sentences

This is simply practical; only the postlapsarian, who have conceded the wild for modernity’s ease, would see oneness with nature as esoteric ancient wisdom, unmoored from necessity.

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But she has also equated this supposed fallenness with the arrival of her songs, which, after putting her newborn daughter up for adoption, began to pour out of her as a kind of postlapsarian poetry.

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For many of us who participated in the early days of the web, the last few years have felt almost postlapsarian.

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Locke describes fallen Adam as lost in a “strange Country” with “all Things new, and unknown about him”; Whewell pictures Adam doing the first work of postlapsarian orientation by giving names “distinct and appropriate to the facts” to newly encountered objects and concepts.

From Slate

She went from a steady maker of big hits to some kind of postlapsarian has-been, seemingly overnight.

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