Meanings of primitive age in English

The primitive age of Christianity is no exception to this universal law.

Those revelations have a primitive meaning, suited for men of a primitive age.

Apart from the primitive age of the Catacombs, had Rome ever been Christian?

Other works of art of this primitive age we know from descriptions in later classical writers.

They merely obeyed the symbolism of primitive age.

They lived in a very primitive age.

It was the hour of dinner, which, in this primitive age of the Spanish colonies, was at noon.

The jagged crags of the mountain loomed over the churchyard like monuments to an even more primitive age.

Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.

To a reader of sensibility, such recurrences wear an air of child-like simplicity, beautifully recalling the features of Homer's primitive age.

Houseboats then were not built to the scale of Mississippi steamers, but this boat was a small one, even for that primitive age.

The Constitution was framed in the period that marked the passing of the primitive age and the dawn of the day of the machine.

He puts forward this remarkable claim in spite of his frank confession that little or nothing is known of a primitive age in Mesopotamia.

These instances are indeed rare, and can scarcely be estimated by ordinary rules, but they were not unprecedented in the primitive age of Christianity.

He would reduce us to the example of the primitive ages, forsooth!

Such flower-garlanded instruction was the best specifically juvenile literature which those primitive ages afforded.