Edenic

English Alternative forms en edenic Etymology From en Eden ic. Pronunciation en /iːˈdɛnɪk/ /ɪˈdɛnɪk/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Edenic.wav Southern England Adjective Of or suggesting Eden, the paradise of the Bible. en 1994 The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media, and Society Will Wright; Steven Kaplan Thus, when Paul and Billy turn to the Edenic archetype, one must not view this as an acceptance of the "truth" of the Judeo-Christian tradition from which this myth is borrowed. en William Cronon Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature 1995 W. W. Norton & Company w:Candace Slater Amazonia as Edenic Narrative 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=ydRJAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA115&dq=Amazonia%20as%20an%20Edenic%20Narrative&hl=es&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=Amazonia%20as%20an%20Edenic%20Narrative&f=false 978-0-393-24252-2 To the extent that an abstract Edenic landscape crowds out the teenage rubber tapper in a faded World Cup T-shirt, the stinging smoke of factories in a treeless city ringed by forest, or the lone plant sprouting in the cracks of a sunbaked roof, it impoverishes our vision of Amazonia, as well as of a larger natural world that demands not just to be respected but, first of all, to be rethought. en 1999 A William Faulkner Encyclopedia Robert W. Hamblin; Charles A. Peek, editors 111 0313298513 Our understanding of the Edenic motif in American fiction stems largely from its articulation by three primary critics — R.W.B. Lewis, Leslie Fiedler, and D. H. Lawrence. en 2014 Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals Gracia Fay Ellwood 194 1630877522 But we need not try to re-create these circumstances, any more than the Sabbath celebration of an Edenic world means that celebrants must go naked and picnic in a garden; we need only make it a happy and special meal. en-US Alex Kuczynski Her Life Was an Old-Money Dream. It Collapsed in a Moment. The New York Times 2026-01-11 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/books/review/belle-burden-strangers-memoir-of-marriage.html 0362-4331 The world Burden inhabits with her husband, James (she has changed his name here, but apparently not much else), is one of Edenic privilege. They live in multimillion-dollar homes in New York and on Martha’s Vineyard, belong to private clubs, have keys to private beaches, kids in private schools. weekend The danger of pessimism fatigue w:Janan Ganesh 2026-10-10 Life & Arts 23 The quickest route to applause from a dappy audience is to pine for some Edenic past, then give a monocausal explanation—Thatcher, smartphones—for the subsequent decline. Noun One who promotes an Edenic ideal. en 1905 Search-light Thrown on the Activities of the World; Volumes 25-26 314 Then there are the Edenics, who exclude all cooked food; the Wallacites, who abhor salt and refuse bread containing yeast; the Haigites, who do not include peas or beans in their vegetarianism; and the Allinsonians, who abandoned tea in favor of a solution of dried cereals. en 1985 The southern Belle in the American novel Kathryn Lee Seidel 127 The Edenics wrote historical novels that place the belle in an antebellum setting, perpetuate the notion that she is an ideal woman, and, most important, present her as a symbol for the lost Garden of the antebellum South. en 2014 The Edenic Rich'iz Burnstine 195 1625163428 Let all that have an ear hear and all that have an eye see, the Edenic will not be denied! Translations of or suggesting Eden Armenian: hy եդեմային, hy եդեմական Catalan: ca edènic Dutch: nl paradijselijk, French: fr paradisiaque, fr édénique Galician: gl edénico German: de paradiesisch Italian: it edenico Polish: pl edeński Portuguese: pt edénico Portugal, pt edênico Brazil Romanian: ro edenic Spanish: es edénico Swedish: sv edenlik Anagrams en cdeein decine icened en People