Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being primitive: thus, in mathematics we speak of the primitivity of a form.
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- noun the state of being
primitive ;primitiveness
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Examples
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He lives in self-imposed seclusion, in an elaborate primitivity which is often described in moving terms that are almost convincing of actual
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president (and occasionally on themselves), Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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Morrison's poems combine sophisticated self-consciousness with stylistic primitivity -- one of contemporary poetry's most appealing hybrid combinations (C.D. Wright, Jorie Graham, D.A. Powell), which, at its best, makes for a potent representation of interior vertigo.
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The bulk of the criticism levied against the Tea Party has been directed at their most visible absurdities: the laughable primitivity of O'Donnell, Rand Paul, and Sharron Angle, the drawing of Hitler mustaches on the president and occasionally on themselves, Glenn Beck's high-octane McCarthyism, the unhinged nativist fashion shows, etc.
Daniel Cluchey: The Price of Tea Daniel Cluchey 2010
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I want to add a little bit to my earlier comment in this context of primitivity.
Further Musings on Avatar: The Na’vi Aren’t As Primitive As We May Think 2010
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The "alternating primitivity" of Matthew and Luke is explicable in terms of Q, but also in terms of one Gospel's author knowing the other's, and yet also knowing a story or saying independently of (i.e. before and apart from encountering it in) that written source (p.188).
Beyond Literary Dependence and Independence James F. McGrath 2009
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