(prep.) In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
(prep.) Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; -- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.
(prep.) An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.
(prep.) Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.
(prep.) In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.
(prep.) Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.
(prep.) Open for; free of access to; in the power of.
(adv.) On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.
(adv.) In advance.
(adv.) In time past; previously; already.
(adv.) Earlier; sooner than; until then.
Example Sentences:
Prelapsarian
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be imbued with nostalgia for the prelapsarian America, and it would capture the sense of community that Walt Disney spent his whole life trying to distil, bottle and sell.
(2) But, as you brace yourself to elbow your way back through Heathrow terminal 3, you harbour niggling prelapsarian feelings about what you've just left behind.
(3) This happy excursus appears in The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Yale, £25) , in a chapter entitled "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction of the Romantic Self", and is preliminary to, among numerous matters, a consideration of why the name Lucifer is not mentioned in Paradise Lost , and why Milton should have chosen not to give us in his great poem an account of Satan in his prelapsarian, luciferous state.
(4) Thereby, the tale implies, he would restore the music to its prelapsarian state of acoustic purity.
(5) It is tempting to treat the Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom and Gregory Lauder-Frost of Traditional Britain as fleshly but similarly risible lieutenants in the prelapsarian dreams of Spode's Black Shorts.
(6) As the Guardian reported at the time: "Instead of finding some prelapsarian wilderness, she and a colleague were confronted with the horror of hundreds of albatrosses lying on the sand.
(7) The prologue, which began an hour before the show itself, was a tableau vivant of rural English life in the 18th century: a prelapsarian age of cows, goats, geese, sheep, a shire horse, a bank of wild flowers, a mill race, a Cotswold stone cottage with smoking chimneys, a wheatfield stippled with poppies, a wooden barn, a trio of maypoles, a kitchen garden, rustic games of cricket and football, a cluster of bee hives, picnics, a sturdy oak tree, fluffy white clouds tethered to squads of minders and slowly circling the arena.
(8) It is individual Asian governments that have insisted on taking it slowly, not a handful of European nostalgists yearning for a prelapsarian age.
(9) Back in the prelapsarian days of 1999, when Tony Blair went to Chicago to evangelise for liberal interventionism, the response to this closed door would have been to suggest that the rest of the world, led by the west, should bust its way in.
(10) In the wake of the bombing of Hiroshima, the remote island must have seemed like a prelapsarian retreat from the horrors of modernity.
(11) It is a prelapsarian shopping bubble, Wisteria Lane with shops instead of houses and celebrity shoppers such as the Middleton clan, Samantha Cameron and Claudia Schiffer.
(12) San Francisco has long strained under the sheer fondness roundly felt for it, or at least for an idea of it, never quite living up to how people imagine or half-remember it in various supposedly prelapsarian states of 20, 40, 60 years ago.
(13) A t the end of each day Oscar Pistorius walks back into prelapsarian fame.
(14) All the memories are not brutal: there is an extended, evocative meditation, likely to become famous, describing childhood summers on an antebellum Southern farm, a memory of prelapsarian happiness eating green apples and watermelons; and a poignant tale of Jane Clemens teaching her son to consider a young slave boy's feelings.
(15) Not being Margaret Thatcher was a key part of Theresa May’s unexpected pitch for the Tory leadership in the now distant, prelapsarian times that began on 11 July 2016 and ended abruptly on 8 June 2017 .