单词 | primaeval |
释义 | primaeval (once / 36821 pages) adj WORD FAMILY primaeval USAGE EXAMPLESIn Ireland, Spain and Greece once-stable systems have become primaeval political soups from which all manner of governments may emerge. Economist(Dec 16, 2015) But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years. Langridge, Irene, William Blake—A Study of His Life a...(2011) Most of the dwellings were miserable huts built of sacking and other rubbish, and standing in small clearings made in the thick, primaeval scrub. Scully, W. C. (William Charles), A Vendetta of the Desert(2011) adj having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state Syn aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial early at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time |
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