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Meanings of primaeval in English
Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
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Examples for "aboriginal"
Examples for "aboriginal"
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We have to work in partnership with aboriginal people to achieve reconciliation.
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They were actually used by certain aboriginal tribes to flush out game.
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The future won't be jet packs and space stations; it'll be aboriginal.
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But it has faced increasing protests from environmental activists and aboriginal groups.
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The investigator puts pressure on the aboriginal, and the aboriginal takes action.
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I know when you usually hear primal, you might think of animals.
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In some primal way he wanted to protect me, to rescue me.
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There's always a really primal feel to night games at this place.
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The ultimate reality was a primal unity, which Plotinus called the One.
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Thus began in the dark swamp that primal battle with the Word.
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Yet the Pontic soldiers' primeval attempt to survive was their own undoing.
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The basis of all this is the primeval dread of personal violence.
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There must be qualities of kinship in the primeval elements of character.
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It really was too awful-likethe dwellers in caves of primeval days.
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The monotonous sublimity of these primeval woods far exceeded my preconceived ideas.
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All the primordial brute in these men was glowing in their hearts.
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With the coming of winter the Blue Mesa reclaimed its primordial solitude.
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The Internet looks primordial then but, nearly 20 million Americans were online.
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This is yet another version of the primordial male-female, mother-father religious iniage.
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Our primordial Nipe hits it on the head, and it drops dead.
Usage of primaeval in English
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He had begun a series of paintings on the theme of primaeval man.
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The grip of the primaeval had laid hold of her heart!
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But mythology is merely the primaeval matrix of religion.
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The belief that some persons had the gift of understanding what the birds said, is primaeval.
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Where, then, must we look for primaeval Man?
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In the primaeval age of conquest they, with seagirt Ireland, were the asylum of the weaker race.
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The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste.
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We are tempted to linger over the story of these primaeval mariners, for nothing equals it in romance.
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Behind lay the central and southern portions of the island, hushed as if their primaeval rocks were still tenantless.
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Now it appears likely that these conditions were exactly fulfilled by the primaeval settlements on the hills of Rome.
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When Abram Garfield came to this lonely lodge in the primaeval woodlands, he had one son and one daughter.
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The Hniflung hoard is also supposed to have consisted of the treasures of one band of primaeval artists, the Iwaldings.
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But man emerges from the primaeval state, and when he does, he demands a reason for his submission to moral law.
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For whithersoever civilization may take us, we must still go back to certain primaeval laws of justice between man and man.
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Tischbein suggested a great poem on the theme of primaeval man-a volume of engravings after Tischbein, with running poetic commentary by Goethe.
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The coolness of the atmosphere was delicious, and the beauty of the jungle seemed to increase the further we penetrated these primaeval forests.
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