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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Primeval \Pri*me"val\, a. [L. primaevus primus first + aevum
age. See {Prime}, a., and {Age}.]
Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive;
primary; as the primeval innocence of man. ``This is the
forest primeval.'' --Longfellow.
From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. --Keats.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
primeval
adj : having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or
original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal
eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the
forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial
forms of life" [syn: {aboriginal}, {primal}, {primaeval},
{primordial}]
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