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eve
has definitions from the field of Old Testament
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[ noun ] (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden
Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals , but as universal human_beings , who were and are all_of humanity . Adam and Eve were perfect , not in the sense that they possessed perfection , but in the sense that they were capable of development toward perfection . `` Eve was disobedient ; for she did not obey when as_yet she was a virgin . Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children , Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due , no_doubt , to carelessness , but still wicked '' . His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the day before
Examples "he always arrives on the eve of her departure" Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday , as he prepares_for the two_weeks of festivities that are to follow . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the period immediately before something
Examples "on the eve of the French Revolution" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 781
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