Word to the Wise: Prelapsarian

"Prelapsarian" (pree-lap-SARE-ee-un) - from the Latin for "before" + "fall" - refers to the time or state before the fall of Adam and Eve.

Example (as used by Mark Lawson in The Guardian): "The mid-twenties were, in general, a prelapsarian period, before the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression of the 1930s."

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