0 ancient; existing at or from a very early time:
primeval forests
1 existing at or from a very early time; ancient:
primeval forests
They discovered beneath the surface of the domesticated landscape the remains of a primeval savagery and contributed to an understanding of the genesis of civilization.
He said that they were simple and more in accordance with nature, with a state of primeval innocence, and not illadapted to the climate.
What he points to is that the enterprise as such is an unrecognized struggle against a fundamental unfamiliarity, against a primeval estrangement.
Uprooted trees, their distribution and influence in the primeval forest biotope.
Dreaming as threat simulation can be thought of as wish fulfillment only in the sense that dreams are expressions of the primeval "wish" to survive.
The baths as almost primeval but also of its time, also modern, brings me to the elevation.
The preservation narrative invokes images of a primeval landscape where the only role people have is as savers (funders) or destroyers (local communities).
Again the eighteenth century is the sketchy before-picture, the primeval sludge out of which modern, industrial society emerges.