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Definition of Primitivists
1. primitivist [n] - See also: primitivist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primitivists
Literary usage of Primitivists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Masters of Modern French Criticism by Irving Babbitt (1912)
"1 She here appears as a disciple of Herder and the other German primitivists who
had themselves merely elaborated the primitivism of Rousseau on a national ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"2 'Among the Continental primitivists,' continues the American presbyter, ' the
writer cannot but think ' that things are ready for an important influence ..."
3. What Women Want: An Interpretation of the Feminist Movement by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1914)
"In a different category altogether is the group of novelists I have called
primitivists, headed by Maurice Hewlett. To them passion is completely its own ..."
4. What Women Want: An Interpretation of the Feminist Movement by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1914)
"In a different category altogether is the group of novelists I have called
primitivists, headed by Maurice Hewlett. To them passion is completely its own ..."
5. What Women Want: An Interpretation of the Feminist Movement by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1914)
"In a different category altogether is the group of novelists I have called
primitivists, headed by Maurice Hewlett. To them passion is completely its own ..."
6. The Land of Riddles: (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz (1904)
"... with the thin neck of the primitivists, which, out of respect for sacred
tradition, the otherwise bold master did not dare meddle with. ..."
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