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primitively en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English primitive Middle English -ly English -ly English primitively From primitive + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a primitive manner.
   • Peter had been an adept with tilts, as old Stein had said so often that morning, while he, Palmer, and Gus, had dubiously laboured at this elusive task. But Peter would rig no more tilts, and primitively old Stein and Gus lamented this, as they missed his services. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253:

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Relateds

primitiveness

Translations (6)

pt primitivamente (in a primitive manner) · gl primitivamente (in a primitive manner) · es primitivamente (in a primitive manner) · sh prȉmitīvno (in a primitive manner) · sh prȉprosto (in a primitive manner) · ca primitivament (in a primitive manner)