prelapsarian
/pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/
Inflected Forms
pre-lapsarian (alternative)