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† priˈmevous, priˈmævous, a. Obs.
[f. as primeve + -ous.]
Primeval, primitive.
1656Blount Glossogr., Primevous, the elder, or of the first age. 1658Phillips, Primævous, of a former age, elder. 1728Morgan Algiers I. i. 11 Those primevous Phœnicians, or Canaanites. 1875H. Miller Test. Rocks ix. 358 Sufferings to which they had been subjected in a primevous state.
Hence † priˈmevousness.
1727in Bailey vol. II. |