Preprimitive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Preprimitive is an adjective meaning Before a primitive age.
Meaning
Before a primitive age.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.
Example Sentences
The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state.
[…]John Smith remarked them as he coasted by / Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf / At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself They weren't Red Indians but veritable Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people, Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include primitive, premedieval, primevous, primordiate, pre-hexameral, primative.
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