Prelapsarian

adj. Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve. [pre- + Latin lpsus, fall; see lapse + -arian.]

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Long Walk therefore depicts the ideal persona, as a virtuous man, who is not merely a prelapsarian angel but one who faces his adversary directly, assuaging his own internal ire and replacing it with a spirit of reconciliation.

Long Walk to Freedom and the mutating face of the epic by Motsa, Zodwa /Journal of Literary Studies