aboriginally
Americanadverb
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in or since the earliest time; originally.
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often Aboriginally, in a way that relates to Aboriginal or other Indigenous peoples, especially of Australia.
Example Sentences
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A man cannot, however, deviate at once so widely and so spontaneously in his impulses from the rest of the world in which he himself lives without possessing an aboriginally abnormal temperament.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis
Many of these points are of so unimportant or of so singular a nature, that it is extremely improbable that they should have been independently acquired by aboriginally distinct species or races.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
The almost entire absence of associated grasses, which forms so remarkable a feature in the vegetation of this island, may perhaps be accounted for by the land having been aboriginally covered with forest-trees.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The face has been the chief object of attention, though, when man aboriginally went naked, the whole surface of his body would have been attended to.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
On the whole, the writer feels that the evidence is insufficient to warrant placing the Luechas in the coast ranges as a group aboriginally native to that area.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook
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