primaevality

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See also: primævality

English

Noun

primaevality (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of primevality
    • 1956, Year Book, page 249:
      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.
    • 1985, Venkata Siddharthacharry, Jambudwipa: A Blueprint for a South Asian Community, Radiant Publishers, →ISBN, page 247:
      [] will continue to combine a Spartan adherence to a primaevality in the Bhutanese Arcadia.
    • 1988, Jessie Davies, Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova, →ISBN, page 66:
      Anna felt closer to Mandelstam than to any other poet, considering him as some miracle of poetic primaevality worthy of rapture.
    • 1997, Археологія, page 65:
      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, Nigel Rapport, Transcendent Individual: Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology, published 2003:
      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.
    • 2001, Fragmenta faunistica, page 42:
      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.
    • 2004, A. Ramachandran, Ramachandran: A Retrospective, Vadehra Art Gallery, →ISBN, page 254:
      [] painter into a yogi in trance underscores the visionary aspect of artistic creation, and the identification of the artist with the Anantasayi – his hair now turned into the hood of Ananta – stresses the primaevality of all artistic creations.
    • 2008, Lagos Review of English Studies, page 39:
      In the same token, the novel is also read by totalizing metropolitan hermeneutics as a story of anthropological dimensions detailing the benighted customs and cultures of a “heathenish” and “philistinic” African people who still exist in the eaves of prehistory, greedily suckling the nipples of primaevality.
    • 2013, Brāhmanic Vignettes: Diplomat’s Nostalgia, New Delhi: Partridge, →ISBN, page 45:
      I realized how barbarous urban “civilization” was as against primaevality.