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Primitiveness   Listen
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Primitiveness  n.  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Primitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the combes and the leys, the crags and the quarries, the modern hotel, with its perfect sanitation and imperfect French, is springing up with the rapidity of Badraoulbadour's palace. It spoils the primitiveness of the people, and gives them ideas below their station. They lose their simple manliness and take tips. They corrupt their autochthonic customs, and drink champagne cider. The modern hotel is a upas-tree, under whose boughs poetry withers. One looks to see the ancient ballads lose their blood ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... against the primitiveness of fetichism deals with the question, 'Whence comes the supernatural predicate of the fetich?' If a negro tells us his fetich is a god, whence got he the idea of 'god'? Many obvious answers occur. Mr. Muller says, speaking of the Indians (p. 205): 'The concept of gods was no doubt growing ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Primitiveness" :   crudeness, primitive, crudity, rudeness, primitivism



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