primaeval

British  

/ praɪˈmiːvəl /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of primeval

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Example Sentences

Sometimes I tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the mystery of primaeval nature.

From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

But I can help them to an explanation of what became of these primaeval men-of-arms.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

But how would it have been possible for Milton to have enriched his poetry with all these elements in a primaeval age, when many of them did not exist?

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss

Now what holds good of primaeval and savage man holds good also of civilized, perhaps even of ourselves among our machine made and easily replaced properties.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon

The fertile loam forming the bottoms was densely covered with the growth of the primaeval forest, broken here and there by glade-like openings, where herds of game grazed on the tall, thick grass.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore