
adj.
Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.
[PRE- + Latin lāpsus, fall; see lapse + -ARIAN.]
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Nicholas Kristof reached back to the dawn of time with his battle cry for liberals to take on questions of religion, meanwhile contributing a top Alt-Click:
"The squeamishness about sexuality led the church into such absurdities as a debate about 'prelapsarian sex': the question of whether Adam and Eve might have slept together in the Garden of Eden."
Link: Liberal Bible-Thumping
Posted May 16, 2005.
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