Meanings
- uncountableDated spelling of primevalness.
Hamisi reflected that much of Africa still retained the primaevalness of the Garden of Eden.
1971, Ali Mazrui, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo, →ISBN, page 554 more examples
In his rise to completedness and fall back into primaevalness he prevails in Nature’s play of ‘temporization’.
1972, Vincent Vycinas, “Culture”, in Search for Gods, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, section 8 (Spatio-Temporal Play), page 176The free-flowing hair of the head and the beard symbolise for the Rastafari strength and nature, primaevalness, wildness and untamedness.
2005, Wolfgang Bender, editor, Rastafarian Art, Ian Randle Publishers, →ISBN, page 7While in this poem the potentially darker undertones of the invoked primaevalness in nature are overcome thanks to a sense of healthy vitality, in a few other poems the general concept of nature assumes less positive tones.
2006, Tijana Stojković, “Notes”, in “Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day”: Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, page 226I fashion for you (msi=i n=ṯn) those who are in their primaevalness, whose names are hidden from me.
2013, Christopher Eyre, “The Written Authorization”, in The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88
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