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Definition of Primitively
1. Adverb. With reference to the origin or beginning.
2. Adverb. In a primitive style or manner. "Rather primitively operated foundries"
Definition of Primitively
1. adv. Originally; at first.
Definition of Primitively
1. Adverb. In a primitive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Primitively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primitively
Literary usage of Primitively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and by Louis Félicien J. Caignart de Saulcy, Edouard de Warren (1853)
"... I shall conclude by observing that the sepulchral excavations of which it is
composed, after having been primitively hewn to be used as tombs, ..."
2. A Discourse on the Soul and Instinct: Physiologically Distinguished from by Martyn Paine (1849)
"... isted primitively in« water, as matter of a particular kind, and that it was
there endowed with the plastic facility ; that is to say, with the power of ..."
3. Ethics of Literature by John A. Kersey (1894)
"... True and the Necessary—False Judgment Cannot be Basis of Cognition of
Truth—Sensibility has Nothing primitively and Derives Nothing Except Empirically, ..."
4. The Works of Robt: Leighton by Robert Leighton, George Jerment (1805)
"... and they deriving it from him ; He, primitively living, and they by participation :
for therefore is he called here a living stone, not only because of ..."
5. Essays on Indian Antiquities: Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic by James Prinsep, Edward Thomas (1858)
"... copies of some novel emblems that occur on a similar class of primitively-adjusted
weights of silver in the collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ..."
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