Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of primevality.
Holloway on Primævality and Pre-eminence of the Sacred Hebrew
1791, Food for Book-Worms. Price One Shilling, (To Be Allowed in Purchase, or on Returning It,) a Catalogue of Books, for 1791, […], page 732 more examples
Yet in the genial climates of the sun it is pleasant living: existence has a primævality about it, which during the dreaminess of repose, the dolce far niente, hangs like a mist about the mind;
1846, “Jaunting in Jamaica—As It Used to Be”, in The Sporting Review, page 330And sometimes the glamour would be heightened by the apparition on the ramparts of the captive bear, or the imprisoned bison, kept by the officers, poor relics of the primævality so rapidly forsaking America.
1895, Douglas Sladen, “Quebec: the Capital of New France”, in On the Cars and Off. Being the Journal of a Pilgrimage Along the Queen’s Highway to the East, from Halifax in Nova Scotia to Victoria in Vancouver’s Island., London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, page 50
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