primally

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

primal +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

primally (comparative more primally, superlative most primally)

  1. in a primal manner
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Chapter 9[1]:
      As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.
    • 1909, Percival Lowell, The Evolution of Worlds:
      The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.