Meaning of primevality | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being primeval.

uncountable

Examples

“He had been, the greater part of his life, a Quaker; and, to the day of his death, he wore the Quaker costume in its most perfect primevality—his broad hat, half cock and half slouch; his drab coat, of an ample length and breadth of skirts; his drab waistcoat, with flaps of such liberal dimensions, that they afforded room for pockets as large as those in most men’s coats; his drab breeches, fastened at the knees with buckles; his neat gray worsted stockings; and capacious shoes, clasped with large steel buckles.”

“The observations and the assiduity required to make them are not out of measure with the known patience and primevality of the Egyptian priesthood.”

“The Primevality of Revelation and Spiritual Gifts.”

“I never was more disappointed than in the transition from the primevality of the far West to the more advanced state of society in the Peninsular State, and like all who have left Kansas, I anxiously look for the time of return, which will be early in the spring, if not sooner.”

“After all, there is nothing like nature, in her primevality.[…]There he found Nature—there was primevality indeed!”

“The jokes had the true histrionic smack of primevality, and the several actors acquitted themselves quite dramatically.”

“There is an atmosphere of primevality about the immediate vicinity of them, when one glances into the forests at the right and left, but this delusion vanishes when the eye seeks the country to the westward again and the busy mills of toil with their tall chimneys belching forth the vapors of the furnaces loom up before the vision.”

“Lake scenery is always enchanting; there is a purity and primevality about it which delights the beholder and bewitches him into a ramble around its shores while the docile team rests.”

“But the most astonishing revelation made was the primevality of the method adopted by the landlady of the Commercial Hotel for identifying her customers.”

“Airless he breathed in primevality / The One beyond whom nought hath ever been.”

“I never had a forest impress me with its “primevality,” if I can so use the term, as did this particular spot.”

“Think of the jolly primevality of that. Think of the good old prehistoricality of that.”

“When this bit of unthinking primevality is done away with we shall have less of the morbid spirit that fosters anti-vivisection and similar movements.”

“No doubt the primeval woman, after fifty thousand years or so of primevality—Mr. Marvin liked to talk in periods of fifty thousand years—began to sneer (occasionally) at mere brute strength; but if she did so, that was because she had discovered that there was something stronger than mere brute strength.”

“But how the primevality of this galaxy, even if it is in an early stage of evolution, can be actually proved? Its emissivity and its metallicity must satisfy to criteria of evolution. So the question is: what are the significant criteria of evolution and then of primevality?”

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