Primeval Definition

prī-mēvəl
adjective
Of the earliest times or ages; primal; primordial.
Primeval forests.
Webster's New World

Primary; original.

Wiktionary

Primitive.

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Origin of Primeval

  • From primevous + -al. Further, primevous, from Latin primaevus (“in the first or earliest period of life"), from primus (“first") + aevum (“time, age"); see prime and age.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin prīmaevus early in life prīmus first per1 in Indo-European roots aevum age aiw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Primeval Sentence Examples

  • But he was a profoundly interested observer of affairs at home and among 1 The Assyrian term abubu is used of the great primeval deluge (in the Gilgamesh epic), and also of the local floods common in the country.

  • Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.

  • The slopes of the plateau which face the rain-bringing monsoon are in some places covered with primeval forest, in which timber is plentiful.

  • It is also active force without a substratum; as active force the primeval Being is perpetually producing something else, without alteration, or motion, or diminution of itself.

  • The primeval Being is, as opposed to the many, the One; as opposed to the finite, the Infinite, the unlimited.

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