occurring after or due to the fall of humankind as expounded in the Bible
postlapsarian in American English
(ˌpoustlæpˈsɛəriən)
adjective
occurring or being after the Fall
Word origin
[1725–35; post- + -lapsarian, as in infralapsarian,supralapsarian]This word is first recorded in the period 1725–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: amorphous, arcade, collapse, copyright, hairlinepost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postlapsarian' in a sentence
postlapsarian
For us, the temptation is to universalize that signature 'sadness' as postlapsarian alienation.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
Here the strings skate over its postlapsarian lyric.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Still, there are some who believe in the pulling power of paradise, even in a postlapsarian world.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The spirit ascends, leaving behind the sinful material human condition and the depravities of postlapsarian existence.