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

Why must the fall of man, rather than the survival of woman, still be the main event?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018

Homer told the story of ancient Greece in the “Iliad,” Virgil of Rome in the “Aeneid,” John Milton of the fall of man in “Paradise Lost,” and Alexander Pope of 18th-century England in the “Dunciad.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2017

Despite his heroism, despite all his success at bringing about the fall of man, the former’s actions take place in a universe with definite boundaries.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2016

A techno study of the fall of man, R.I.P. shifts through rooms of uniquely realised sound, full of squirming electricity, thudding bass and wisps of static.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012

The religious poet, in his Night Thoughts, interrogates the inhabitants of a distant star, whether their race too has, in its history, events resembling the fall of man, and the redemption of man.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward