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primeval | American Dictionary

primeval
adjective
us/prɑɪˈmi·vəl/
existing at or from a very early time; ancient:
primeval forests

Examples of primeval

primeval
They discovered beneath the surface of the domesticated landscape the remains of a primeval savagery and contributed to an understanding of the genesis of civilization.
He said that they were simple and more in accordance with nature, with a state of primeval innocence, and not illadapted to the climate.
What he points to is that the enterprise as such is an unrecognized struggle against a fundamental unfamiliarity, against a primeval estrangement.
Uprooted trees, their distribution and influence in the primeval forest biotope.
Dreaming as threat simulation can be thought of as wish fulfillment only in the sense that dreams are expressions of the primeval "wish" to survive.
The baths as almost primeval but also of its time, also modern, brings me to the elevation.
The preservation narrative invokes images of a primeval landscape where the only role people have is as savers (funders) or destroyers (local communities).
Again the eighteenth century is the sketchy before-picture, the primeval sludge out of which modern, industrial society emerges.
Free at last in the present time of their own voice, these women 'show everyone primeval femininity and its powers of control' (p. 93).
To complete the noble savage motif, we need only add the element of nature, of the primeval (precivilized, hence savage by default).
Blind's primeval atoms of "measureless speed" fall into highly measured and exacting metrical patterns.
Their simplest expression is the primeval phenomenon of popular humor, the cartwheel, which by the continual rotation of the upper and lower parts suggests the rotation of earth and sky.
If such features constitute the "primeval soup," then, like normal targets in the search task, the primeval soup would also only be "seen" if it was being attended to.
Study of interactions of biological macromolecules with mineral surfaces are of crucial interest either for understanding primeval metabolic processes or for detection of traces of living activities.
Having dazzled us with this display of pure reason, he then appealed to the dark instincts of primeval blood and earth.
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