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• a variation of primeval.

primaeval

British  

/ praɪˈmiːvəl /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of primeval

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primaeval

With the dissolution of these primaeval communities society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic classes.

From Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx, Karl

If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit,   This earth will be the prey of strife once more,     As when primaeval discord held its reign.

From Don Quixote by Ormsby, John

It went out in silence—a dreadful, lasting silence in which the souls of men, stripped naked of human convention, stood confronting the first primaeval instinct of human chivalry.

From The Way of an Eagle by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old; Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

The young archer, causing water to spring from the rock by a shot from his bow, marks the miraculous cessation of prehistoric dearth, as the bull leaping from a skiff perhaps commemorates a primaeval deluge.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel