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postlapsarian

[ pohst-lap-sair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. occurring or being after the Fall.


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Origin of postlapsarian1

1725–35; post- + -lapsarian, as in infralapsarian, supralapsarian ( def )
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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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She went from a steady maker of big hits to some kind of postlapsarian has-been, seemingly overnight.

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In the postlapsarian summer of 2010, however, fresh hires and interns on Wall Street are settling for Ruth's Chris or—more often—nothing at all.

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