Edenic

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From Eden +‎ -ic.

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Edenic (comparative more Edenic, superlative most Edenic)

1. Of or suggesting Eden, the paradise of the Bible.
   • 1994, Will Wright, Steven Kaplan, The Image of Technology in Literature, the Media, and Society:

     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.

   • 1995, Candace Slater, “Amazonia as Edenic Narrative”, in William Cronon, editor, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 115:

     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.

   • 1999, Robert W. Hamblin, Charles A. Peek, A William Faulkner Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 111:

     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.

   • 2014, Gracia Fay Ellwood, Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals, →ISBN, page 194:

     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.

Edenic (plural Edenics)

1. One who promotes an Edenic ideal.
   • 1905, Search-light Thrown on the Activities of the World; Volumes 25-26, page 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.

   • 1985, Kathryn Lee Seidel, The southern Belle in the American novel, page 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.

   • 2014, Rich'iz Burnstine, The Edenic, →ISBN, page 195:

     Let all that have an ear hear and all that have an eye see, the Edenic will not be denied!

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