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primitiveness|ˈprɪmɪtɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality, character, or condition of being primitive (in any sense of the adj.).
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §4. 35 Transcendental Relations of Quality at large... 1. Primitiveness, Root, original, simple, underived. 1684Def. Resol. Case of Consc. conc. Symbolizing w. Ch. Rome 30 Replying to those few lines that follow against the Primitiveness of our Episcopacy. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax xxvii, The folk in our valley, out of their very primitiveness, had more faith in the master. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. II. 281 These gradations of primitiveness in corruption. |