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Primitiveness   Listen
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Primitiveness  n.  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Primitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tales of the Russian People, of his Dreams (real night-dreams), of his books written during the War and the Revolution (Mara and The Noises of the Town). In his later work he tends towards a greater simplicity, a certain "primitiveness" of outline, and a more concentrated style. Remizov's disciples, as might be expected, have been more successful in imitating the grotesqueness of his caricatures and the vivid and intense concentration of his character painting than in ...
— Tales of the Wilderness • Boris Pilniak

... plunged suddenly into the extraordinarily varied literary resources of the Temple Barholm library. If he had been a fool or a genius one might have guessed at the impression made on him; being T. Tembarom, one speculated with secret elation. The primitiveness he might reveal, the profundities he might touch the surface of, the unexpected ends he might reach, suggested the ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... near it strange narrow alleys, leading where one cared not to search; a garden of pears and figs, and grapes, and innumerable flowers and an arbour; a pavilion, all windows, over an entranceway, with a shrine in it—a be-starred shrine below it; bare floors, simple furniture, primitiveness at every turn. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... with you entirely," Major Forrest declared. "If our friend has disappointed us at all, it is in the absence of that primitiveness which he led us to expect. One perceives that one is drinking Veuve Clicquot of a vintage year, and one suspects the ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim



Words linked to "Primitiveness" :   crudity, wild, primitive, state of nature, rudeness



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