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a fallen angel
a company or sports team that was successful in the past but is not successful now. Derby County were this season's fallen angels, being sent into the Second Division after losing all their matches. (usually plural)
See also: angel

a fallen idol

a person who was admired in the past but who is not admired any more. Highly respected during his lifetime, he became a fallen idol after his death when his research was found to be full of errors.

a fallen woman (old-fashioned)

a woman who is not respected any more because she had sex without being married. Many fallen women were forced to work as prostitutes, some were shut away in asylums.
See also: woman


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This view of the fallenness of man is consistent with traditional Christianity, and finds particular resonance in the thought of St.
Theological reflections on Robert Penn Warren's all the King's Men by Mitchell, Mark T. / Modern Age
And while Kassell doesn't seem to be operating from a consciously Christian perspective, she arrives at a Christian place, keeping company with a person perceived to be irredeemable, and honoring both his fallenness and his capacity for redemption.
Unforgiven: 'The Woodsman' by Cooper, Rand Richards / Commonweal
Most critics have analyzed the play through a secular hermeneutic--in which its visionary aspects are written off as dreams and drug-induced delusions--or a conservative religious hermeneutic--in which homosexuality is de facto the realm of fallenness and abomination--and thereby fail to detect the strains of prophecy and Kabbalah which provide a coherent religious cosmology amidst disaster and betrayal.
The Great Work begins: theater as theurgy in Angels in America by Lioi, Anthony / Cross Currents
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