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Primordial Definition

  • having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state;
    synonyms:primeval, primal, aboriginal, primaeval

Sentence Examples

Will we revert to the Primordial?

[From Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Marquis, Don]

Water, the primordial substance.

This, I think, is the primordial dragon, the archetype.

[From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman]

They are the primordial pines, survivors from an unknown period.

[From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell]

These two are the primordial authors of the world as it exists.

[From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) The Revival of Learning by Symonds, John Addington]

There are three primordial elements—water, earth, and wind.

[From The Development of Metaphysics in Persia A Contribution to the History of Muslim Philosophy by Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir]

“The dog,” he said, “has lost much of its primordial character.”

[From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John]

The situation was primordial.

[From The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)]

The forests of primordial origin.

The author admits this distinction to be ultimate and primordial.

[From Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by Mill, James]

She was going to be as primordial as chipped flint.

[From Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)]

She said that it no doubt had its origin in primordial man.

[From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven David Justin]

Self-sacrifice, then, is no less primordial than self-preservation.

[From The Data of Ethics by Spencer, Herbert]

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life.

[From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack]

It was across this gigantic primordialism that our way led us.

[From Through the Heart of Patagonia by Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh]

It may well be a primordial form of clothing with mankind.

It is the most primordial of feelings.

[From Post-Impressions: An Irresponsible Chronicle by Strunsky, Simeon]

Her innocence was primordial.

He executes a primordial dance.

[From The Nurserymatograph by Allan, G. A. T. (George A. T.)]

Genesis of solar systems from the primordial elements of space.

[From The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Heysinger, Isaac Winter]

Every true species is primordial.

[From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles]

Even the natives seldom see these great, hairy, primordial men.

[From The Son of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Back with the first squirm of life in the primordial mud.

[From Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Blades, Leslie Burton]

Anyhow it must have taken place in quite primordial times.

[From My Autobiography: A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)]

Animals of the Primordial Seas.

[From The Story of the Earth and Man by Dawson, John William, Sir]

And at his kiss "primordial passion" awoke.

[From Moral Poison in Modern Fiction by Johnson, R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley)]


All the primordial brute in these men was glowing in their hearts.

[From The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)]

All change is ultimately due to the primordial motion of the atoms.

[From The History of Roman Literature From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas]

Primordial fauna.

Primordial Man.

Primordial Epoch.

This is the world as God made it, with all its primordial beauty.

[From Troop One of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon]

They live in the crude, primordial fashion of their forefathers. 

[From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon]

The primordial germ is not poetical, but dissertational.

[From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various]

In France only two islands had emerged from the primordial ocean.

[From The World Before the Deluge by Bristow, Henry W. (Henry William)]

Dextrine is an ingredient in the primordial cell.

[From On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Somerville, Mary]

But all these primordial forms grow--develop into vital activity.

[From Life: Its True Genesis by Flaccus, Horatius]

Hence Fire, Water and Air are the primordial Cosmic Trinity.

[From The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)]

Primordiality of intelligence.

[From The Natural Philosophy of Love by Pound, Ezra]

Primordial utricle.