Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
primitivist .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word primitivists.
Examples
-
Of course such a reading is wholly unacceptable to 'primitivists' in Islam, for whom this would be an example of a rationalising strategy, a style of interpretation (ijtihad) uncontrolled by proper traditional norms.
Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England 2008
-
All but Islamicist 'primitivists' would accept that this is a secondary jurisdiction.
Archive 2008-02-01 Burke's Corner 2008
-
All but Islamicist 'primitivists' would accept that this is a secondary jurisdiction.
Is this what now passes for public debate? Burke's Corner 2008
-
Of course such a reading is wholly unacceptable to 'primitivists' in Islam, for whom this would be an example of a rationalising strategy, a style of interpretation (ijtihad) uncontrolled by proper traditional norms.
Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective 2008
-
Of course such a reading is wholly unacceptable to 'primitivists' in Islam, for whom this would be an example of a rationalising strategy, a style of interpretation (ijtihad) uncontrolled by proper traditional norms.
Archbishop's Lecture - Civil and Religious Law in England 2008
-
There are the hyperrealists, who strive for molecular-level precision; the neo-primitivists, who use centuries-old palettes of extracts and essential oils; the Fauvist types, who embrace a sensually heightened sensibility.
-
But instead of becoming primitivists, people decide to make humans themselves technology.
You Will Know the Disgrace, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
What can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or anarcho-primitivists or Greens or werewolves or pagans or psychics or UFO groupies or other concerned members of the general public do?
Shroud II: the Deliverance Walter Jon Williams 2009
-
Over the fledgling shouts of anarcho-syndicalist union organizers, anarcho-capitalist property-mongers and smug primitivists heading for the treeline, would be the sound of a people still completely wrapped in the psychosis of power.
-
I quite liked Robert Cruikshanks' comments, although primitivists generally make me want to puke.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.