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Eden|ˈiːd(ə)n|
[a. Heb. ēden; etymologically ‘pleasure, delight’.]
1. The abode of Adam and Eve at their creation, Paradise; also more fully, the garden of Eden.
1382Wyclif Gen. iv. 16 Caym..dwellide at the eest plage of Eden. 1535Coverdale Gen. ii. 8 The Lorde God also planted a garden of pleasure in Eden. Ibid. iii. 23 Then the Lorde God put him out of the garden of Eden. 1667Milton P.L. v. 143 Discovering..all the East Of Paradise and Edens happie Plains. 1796–7Coleridge Poems (1862) 14 Ah flowers! which joy from Eden stole While innocence stood smiling by. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun, II. x. 108 What the flaming sword was to the first Eden, such is the malaria to these sweet gardens and groves.
2. transf. and fig. A delightful abode or resting-place, a paradise; a state of supreme happiness.
a1225Juliana 79 He [the translator] mote beon a corn i godes guldene edene. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 42 This sceptred Isle This other Eden, demy paradise. 1665–9Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 320 He inherits..a gay and priviledg'd Plot of his Eden. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 128 Who acts thus wisely mark the moral Muse A blooming Eden in his life reviews. 1830A. E. Bray Fitz of F. i. (1884) 9 Mount Edgcombe, that Eden of Devon. 1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 187 Henceforward squall nor storm Could keep me from the Eden where she dwelt.
Hence Edenic |iːˈdɛnɪk|, a., of or pertaining to Eden; ˈEdenize v. trans., to make like Eden; to admit into Eden or Paradise; ˈEdenized ppl. a., ˌEdeniˈzation.
a1618J. Davies Wit's Pilgrim. N iv. (T.) For pure saints edeniz'd unfit. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 75 By the memory of Edenic joys Forfeit and lost. 1862D. Wilson Preh. Man iii. (1865) 22 The moral contrast which the savage presents to our conceptions of Edenic life. 1877Wraxall tr. V. Hugo's Miserables iv. v. 4 The Edenization of the world. |