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Definition of Primitivistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primitivistic
Literary usage of Primitivistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (1919)
"The great ancients, however, though enjoying the poetry of the primitivistic
dream, were not the dupes of this dream. Horace, for example, lived at the most ..."
2. Psychology and Life by Hugo Münsterberg (1899)
"The simple forms of primitivistic art are not a real returning to the beginnings
of art, which would be quite adapted to children. ..."
3. Psychology and Life by Hugo Münsterberg (1899)
"The simple forms of primitivistic art are not a real returning to the beginnings
of art, which would be quite adapted to children. ..."
4. Thomas Morton of "Merrymount": The Life and Renaissance of an Early American by Jack Dempsey (2000)
"Next we know, this "place" is written of by Ralegh and Greenblatt between them
as "primitivistic": America, in their assumptions, is not being enjoyed ..."
5. New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (2000)
"Next we know, this "place" is written of by Ralegh and Greenblatt between them
as "primitivistic": America, in their assumptions, is not being enjoyed ..."
6. New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism by Thomas Morton (1999)
"Next we know, this "place" is written of by Ralegh and Greenblatt between them
as "primitivistic": America, in their assumptions, is not being enjoyed ..."
7. Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg (2003)
"For treatment of the Golden Age and other primitivistic themes in ancient times,
see Lovejoy and Boas 1935; in medieval times, Boas 1948. [SS] 182. ..."
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