Meaning of primaevality | Babel Free
Definitions
Alternative spelling of primevality.
alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Examples
“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.”
“[…]will continue to combine a Spartan adherence to a primaevality in the Bhutanese Arcadia.”
“Anna felt closer to Mandelstam than to any other poet, considering him as some miracle of poetic primaevality worthy of rapture.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“[…]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.”
“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.”
“I realized how barbarous urban “civilization” was as against primaevality.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.