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primaevalness

primaevalness noun: dated spelling of primevalness.

Noun

primaevalness (uncountable)

  1. Dated spelling of primevalness.
    • Hamisi reflected that much of Africa still retained the primaevalness of the Garden of Eden.1971, Ali Mazrui, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo, →ISBN, page 55
    • In his rise to completedness and fall back into primaevalness he prevails in Nature’s play of ‘temporization’.1972, Vincent Vycinas, “Culture”, in Search for Gods, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, section 8 (Spatio-Temporal Play), page 176

Examples of primaevalness in a sentence

  • The free-flowing hair of the head and the beard symbolise for the Rastafari strength and nature, primaevalness, wildness and untamedness.2005, Wolfgang Bender, editor, Rastafarian Art, Ian Randle Publishers, →ISBN, page 7:
  • I fashion for you (msi=i n=ṯn) those who are in their primaevalness, whose names are hidden from me.2013, Christopher Eyre, “The Written Authorization”, in The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)...

Origin of primaevalness

From primaeval + -ness.

Questions about primaevalness

What does primaevalness mean?
Primaevalness means dated spelling of primevalness.
How do you use primaevalness in a sentence?
The free-flowing hair of the head and the beard symbolise for the Rastafari strength and nature, primaevalness, wildness and untamedness.
What part of speech is primaevalness?
Primaevalness is a noun.

Words near primaevalness in the dictionary

  1. primaeval
  2. primaeval forest
  3. primaeval forests
  4. primaevality
  5. primaevally
  6. primaevalness
  7. primage
  8. primages
  9. Primakov
  10. primal
  11. primal horde

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