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Adam and Eve

Pronunciation pronunciation key
adăm, eev

Definition 
The archetypal man and woman. According to Genesis 2, Adam and Eve were the man and woman created by God to inhabit the Garden of Eden. Their names may be invoked in a variety of contexts, variously with reference to their state of happy innocence before the Fall, to their nakedness, to their fallibility, to their disobedience, or to their joint guilt for committing the first sin. "'O pooh! He is the fallen Adam with a soured temper. We are Adam and Eve unfallen—in paradise'" (George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860). See also Adam; Eve.

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