Primevally

Quick meaning: Primevally is an adverb meaning In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Meaning

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Example Sentences

Some authors suppose that man primevally lived in single families; but at the present day, though single families, or only two or three together, roam the solitudes of some savage lands, they are always, as far as I can discover, friendly with other families inhabiting the same district.

'Interesting, Doctor, is it not? It would be beautiful in a way, primevally beautiful—an idyll of the callow world when the rocks were jagged like molten lead thrown into water, the vegetation chiefly fungoid, and it was necessary to clip the wings of one's horned cattle. But for the man—he is a late, mongrel, low-grade production, with merely a few primitive impulses. '

Word Forms

• primaevally

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include primaevally, paravant, primordially, heretoforetime, erer, aforetime.

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