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

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

One can just as well recount a more recent and assuredly secular story of the fall of man.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 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

If Baudelaire leaves you wondering, quietly, whether the fall of man was set in motion by a dropped banana skin, then Bergson’s offering, entitled simply “Laughter,” ushers us toward a more remedial definition.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2015

Yet every reader feels that this is not the whole mystery of the fall of man: moral evil cannot be accounted for by referring it to a brute source.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus