Meaning of preprimitive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Before a primitive age.
   not-comparable
2. Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.
   not-comparable

Examples

“The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state.”

“[…]John Smith remarked them as he coasted by / Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf / At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself They weren't Red Indians but veritable Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people, Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; […]”

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