Definition of Fall of man

1. Noun. (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death.

Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: Landmark, Turning Point, Watershed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Of Man

Falconidae
Falconiformes
Falernian
Faliscan
Falkirk
Falkland
Falkland Islander
Falkland Islands
Falklander
Falklanders
Falklands
Falklands War
Falkner
Fall
Fall River
Fall of Man
Falla
Fallopian
Fallopian tube
Fallopian tubes
Fallot
Fallot's syndrome
Fallot's tetralogy
Fallot's triad
Falmouth
Falstaff
Falstaffian
Falun Gong
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Literary usage of Fall of man

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888)
"We must, as the Apostle says, live by faith, not by sight." I talked to him of original sin," in consequence of the fall of man, and of the atonement made ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"ON THE fall of man: OCCASIONED BY THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTATION OF THAT EVENT. i " Neither can it seem strange, that God should lay stress on such ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This thought naturally led him to a consideration of the fall of man and its consequences. Original sin has so completely destroyed our likeness to God and ..."

4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"The 'opera' of The State of Innocence and Fall of and Fall of Man, though never intended for representation, is a more Man extraordinary though a less ..."

5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"GOOD MAN'S Fall of Man, p. 171. Foreign Drugs—Foreign to our Constitutions. ... GOODMAN'S Fall of Man, p. 97 Sir Christopher Nation's Tomb—a Moralisation ..."

6. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1857)
"The Two Reformers—The Fall of Man—Expiation of the Man-God- No Merit in Works—Objections refuted—Power of Lore for Christ- Election—Christ the sole ..."

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