primaevality

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A form of primevality — The quality of being primeval.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounprimaevality (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of primevality.

    […]will continue to combine a Spartan adherence to a primaevality in the Bhutanese Arcadia.

    1985, Venkata Siddharthacharry, Jambudwipa: A Blueprint for a South Asian Community, Radiant Publishers, →ISBN, page 247
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    Minhagim of long standing absorb some of this primaevality, but a memory of their origin lingers on in the soul of the people and the latter are proud of their share in forming and fostering religious life.

    1956, Year Book, page 249

    Anna felt closer to Mandelstam than to any other poet, considering him as some miracle of poetic primaevality worthy of rapture.

    1988, Jessie Davies, Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova, →ISBN, page 66

    In this connection we need to revise the conclusions on primaevality of formed tools of production and fully developed labor activity in the process of anthropogenesis (as anti-historical in its essence) and began to solve the problem of their genesis.

    1997, Археологія, page 65

    True, Malinowski writes about ‘niggers’, ‘negroes’, ‘brutes’, ‘boys’, and ‘savages’, but then we read the same in Conrad in his similarly introspective encounters with primaevality in the South Seas.

    1997, Nigel Rapport, Transcendent Individual: Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology, published 2003

    Świnia Góra reserve is undoubtedly one of the most interesting protected areas in the Świętokrzyskie Mountain Region; owing to its charming primaevality, it has been compared to Białowieża National Park.

    2001, Fragmenta faunistica, page 42
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