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primaeval

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primaeval [praɪˈmiːvəl]
adj
a variant spelling of primeval
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Adj.1.primaeval - having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
primeval, primordial, primal, aboriginal
early - at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
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primaeval primeval


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For instance, if the scent of the primaeval monster can so remain in proportion to the original strength, can the same be true of things of good import?
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
Far behind the corner of the house--which rose like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around--stretched the soft azure landscape of The Chase--a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-trees, not planted by the hand of man grew as they had grown when they were pollarded for bows.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
In one section grew the plant man, in another a sixteen-legged worm, in the third the progenitor of the white ape and in the fourth the primaeval black man of Barsoom.
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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