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primordial
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  • The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew.  (source)
    primordial = early and essential aspect of something (from before civilization)
  • It is Thierry who concerns her. Thierry, who perhaps on some dark primordial level, senses that he was unexpected, unintended, uninvited.  (source)
    primordial = basic and fundamental
  • Chapter III: The Dominant Primordial Beast  (source)
    Primordial = relating to ancient characteristics that preceded civilization
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  • The gloom of the forest didn't relent, though, for there were six primordial cedars that shaded an entire acre with their vast sweep of branches.  (source)
    primordial = relating to ancient characteristics that preceded civilization
  • It smelled of grass and dirt and the earth itself, almost primordial.  (source)
  • To the far side was a deep patch of fern so lush it looked primordial.  (source)
  • Only then are the onions added, handfuls of them, and now the sound is that of life being spawned in a primordial fire.  (source)
    primordial = primary or fundamental
  • The sound he made was wordless, primordial, the noise that had surely filled the world before there was order and light.  (source)
    primordial = relating to ancient characteristics that preceded civilization
  • Or you might simply dissolve into the primordial void—Ginnungagap.†  (source)
  • Maybe there was some primordial force at work.†  (source)
  • They're quite primordial, you know.†  (source)
  • We had flown the little spacecraft beyond its physical capabilities, zipped past jagged mountains and over the gouges and tears of primordial bombardment, admired all the moon's craters, its mares, and its mountains.†  (source)
  • Other philosophers before him had tried to show that the primordial substance had to be either water, air, or fire.†  (source)
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