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Meanings of primitively in English

Portuguese
originalmente

With reference to the origin or beginning.

        originalmente
        Usage of primitively in English
        1
        Andrew found the work deeply, almost primitively satisfying: moving stone, making hedge.
        Water, stone, heart
        2
        Even in his faults he had ever been primitively simple and obvious.
        The Judgment House
        3
        Manitou showed itself antagonistic to progress; it was old-fashioned, and primitively agricultural.
        The World for Sale, Volume 1.
        4
        Roger leaped primitively to grapple and break his enemy with bare hands.
        The Plunderer
        5
        The crosses were wooden and primitively made, the graves surrounded by stones.
        Nightwalker
        6
        I was unable to be present at the ceremony, which was primitively simple.
        In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
        7
        Neodjuvant chemotherapy has been primitively used in locally advanced breast cancer.
        Pubmed
        8
        The success of this new but still primitively crude class of apparatus was immediate.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        9
        Preparations for bed are simple in the mountains-theywere primitively simple for me that night.
        A Knight of the Cumberland
        10
        The facility had a base headquarters and five satellite training areas, all of them primitively equipped.
        Ghost wars
        11
        On its pages were primitively outlined the features of most of the women of his fiction.
        Balzac
        12
        That's a primitively feminine wish and not at all in accordance with my own advanced ideas.
        The Tinder-Box
        13
        How could she be less primitively honest in the face of one than of the other?
        Mrs. Red Pepper
        14
        She was lovely and tender, but primitively firm.
        A Son of the Hills
        15
        What could there be in common between the sophisticated Eglington and this sweet, primitively wholesome Quaker girl?
        The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Vo...
        16
        He was a Caliban-like creature, primitively ugly, with a mop of hair that had never been combed.
        Lost Face
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        Portuguese
        originalmente
        Primitively through the time