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

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

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

I’ve traveled far but never found a place where the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man are so palpable in one place.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2020

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

The first is entitled, A Grammar of the Hebrew Hieroglyphs applied to the S. Scriptures, containing the History of the Creation of the Universe and the Fall of Man, 8o.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn