primaevalness

English

Noun

primaevalness (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of primevalness
   • 1971, Ali Mazrui, The Trial of Christopher Okigbo, →ISBN, page 55:

     Hamisi reflected that much of Africa still retained the primaevalness of the Garden of Eden.

   • 1972, Vincent Vycinas, “Culture”, in Search for Gods, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, section 8 (Spatio-Temporal Play), page 176:

     In his rise to completedness and fall back into primaevalness he prevails in Nature’s play of ‘temporization’.

   • 2005, Wolfgang Bender, editor, Rastafarian Art, Ian Randle Publishers, →ISBN, page 7:

     The free-flowing hair of the head and the beard symbolise for the Rastafari strength and nature, primaevalness, wildness and untamedness.

   • 2006, Tijana Stojković, “Notes”, in “Unnoticed in the Casual Light of Day”: Phillip Larkin and the Plain Style, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, page 226:

     While in this poem the potentially darker undertones of the invoked primaevalness in nature are overcome thanks to a sense of healthy vitality, in a few other poems the general concept of nature assumes less positive tones.

   • 2013, Christopher Eyre, “The Written Authorization”, in The Use of Documents in Pharaonic Egypt (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

     I fashion for you (msi=i n=ṯn) those who are in their primaevalness, whose names are hidden from me.