fallen
/ˈfɔːlən
/verb
past participle of fall.
adjective
1 Theology Having sinned: fallen human nature...
- It is the Bible - God's word that convinces people of their sin and has power to give them the ability to change their fallen human nature.
- Now every human mediator, whether Moses or the priests, shares with us in all the deficiencies of fallen human nature.
- Jesus didn't come to earth to be poor, hated, and sad. He came to reveal the kingdom of God to a fallen people.
1.1 dated (Of a woman) regarded as having lost her honour through engaging in a sexual relationship outside marriage: a fallen woman with a chequered past...
- Kitty becomes, in her mother's eyes, a fallen woman after being flattered into using her singing talent for a career on the vaudeville stage.
- Not long before, the fallen woman had been held up as the villain of the age, not its victim.
- So, they began to run homes for fallen women, they called it, young girls.
2(Of a soldier) killed in battle: fallen heroes...
- He ran to help his fallen commanders and was killed on the same spot.
- World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of World War II paid tribute yesterday to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead.
- The funeral cortège will then go onto Rochdale Cemetery where the fallen soldier will be buried with full military honours at 12.30 pm.
Synonyms
dead, killed, murdered, slain, slaughtered, perished, expired, deceased;
lost, late, lamented, departed, gone
rare demised
Derivatives
fallenness
- The Reformers' emphasis on the fallenness of the will led to their distrust in reason as a source of information about the spiritual realm, including God.
- Corporate powers in their fallenness have an invisible spiritual dimension that can only be met with the weapons of the spirit.
- He sees his desire like any other misplaced desire: It reminds him of our fallenness and that we live each moment by grace.