Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Eden; characteristic of Eden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.
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Examples
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One of the reasons for early settlers awed reaction to the "edenic" American landscape was that the wide-open vistas had been cleared and replanted by now-dead indigenous people wiped out by early contact with smallpox-ridden explorers.
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The heavenly paradise at the green end, like edenic paradise at the green beginning, can have no humans in it.
July 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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As a dyed-in-the-wool city boy, it was my only real exposure to the 'burbs and it proved an edenic one that also caught something of the exotically militarized mood of that Korean War moment.
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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As a dyed-in-the-wool city boy, it was my only real exposure to the 'burbs and it proved an edenic one that also caught something of the exotically militarized mood of that Korean War moment.
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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As a dyed-in-the-wool city boy, it was my only real exposure to the 'burbs and it proved an edenic one that also caught something of the exotically militarized mood of that Korean War moment.
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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As a dyed-in-the-wool city boy, it was my only real exposure to the 'burbs and it proved an edenic one that also caught something of the exotically militarized mood of that Korean War moment.
Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? Tom Engelhardt 2010
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Oh I know, post-lapsarian; I am definitely conscious of my fall from an edenic state of grace!
Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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There, in lush, edenic landscapes and immense, painterly and unabashedly carnal nudes, Renoir captured the fascination of the Mediterranean for countless painters and poets of his generation who sought Arcadian alternatives to the harsh realities of Parisian modernity.
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There, in lush, edenic landscapes and immense, painterly and unabashedly carnal nudes, Renoir captured the fascination of the Mediterranean for countless painters and poets of his generation who sought Arcadian alternatives to the harsh realities of Parisian modernity.
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There, in lush, edenic landscapes and immense, painterly and unabashedly carnal nudes, Renoir captured the fascination of the Mediterranean for countless painters and poets of his generation who sought Arcadian alternatives to the harsh realities of Parisian modernity.
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