Fall of Man

Cultural  

1. The disobedience of Adam and Eve and their consequent loss of God's grace and the peace and happiness of the Garden of Eden. When they ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God punished them by driving them out of the garden and into the world, where they would be subject to sickness, pain, and eventual death. God told Eve that she would give birth in sorrow and pain; Adam's curse was that he would have to work hard to earn his livelihood.

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Example Sentences

They agonize about making the wrath of Achilles and the Fall of Man meaningful to a generation that has been schooled to see everything through the lens of relevancy.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

The South was her great metaphor, not for place but for the Fall of Man.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

What could you call the fall of 2017 other than the Fall of the Fall of Man.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2019

His rejection by his creator can be seen as a second Fall of Man.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2011

Men have said that the only Fall of Man was a fall upwards. 

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)