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fallenness|ˈfɔːl(ə)nnɪs|
[f. fallen ppl. a. + -ness.]
The state of being fallen; esp. degeneracy consequent upon the Fall.
1871W. Graham Lect. Ephesians vi. 364 It teaches the fallenness of our whole nature. 1912W. H. Moberly in Foundations 283 What is important is not an historical Fall, but the fact of ‘fallenness’. 1923Expos. Times July 439/2 It fails to express the fallenness of man's original animalism and degradation. 1952V. A. Demant Religion & Decl. Capitalism iv. 86 The fallenness of man consists in a certain net of evil in which mankind is caught because of his refusal to live obediently. |