Prelapsarian

Prior to the fall of man (presumably the expulsion from Eden). Innocent.

Found in William Gib­son’s Spook Coun­try.

«…sense of some periph­er­al and prelap­sar­i­an beauty.»

It’s actu­al­ly quite a nice turn of phrase. There’s some­thing quite poet­ic about the idea that there is a kind of beauty—perhaps the very idea of beauty—that exist­ed pri­or to the com­plex­i­ty and tur­moil of mod­ern adult life regard­less of any myth of humankind’s origin.