Meanings of primitive stage in English

The Manóbo system of law is still in its indefinite primitive stage.

Carriage was yet in its most primitive stage, the road builder and bridge builder unheard of.

Folk-tales are the product of a people in a primitive stage when all the world is a wonder-sphere.

But though Paul's Christology remained in this primitive stage, it contained the germs of a more advanced theory.

Well, we have one, exactly one company that's really pursuing this idea with humans and it's in a very primitive stage.

The property of a Manóbo family is so scanty that the rules governing it have never developed beyond a primitive stage.

The iron production, which was in a primitive stage when I arrived in America, had now grown to be a great industry.

The new civilization had to start from a primitive stage, certainly, but its development proceeded far more smoothly than that of the original one.

In eight of these ten B-lineage cases, the blasts were negative for expression of the CD10 antigen, indicating a primitive stage of B-cell development.

Why, then, should not the Navaho woman have brought the art of weaving, possibly in a very primitive stage, from her original Alaskan home?

He thanked Heaven that he was past the primitive stage of thinking any single voice more interesting than the assemblage of instruments known as orchestra.

We had seen other stories spelling out what did sound like a return to a primitive stage of existence in Britain...

Sign activity at such primitive stages of humankind marked the transcendence from accidental to systematic.

Time had rolled back, and locomotion and transportation were once again in the most primitive stages.

Primitive stages are remarkably adaptive to the environment.

This is why interest in cognitive characteristics of oral communication-of the primitive stages or of the present-remains important.