primordial

• Then we answer the divinity in the words, 'Thou art,' and thus we affirm that the true, primordial, and only adequate greeting for him is to declare that he is. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• And since many of our youths have elected to be pagan, what can you expect So your Geoffrey Fox being pagan, primitive--primordial, whatever it is now the fashion to call it, reverted to type, and you were the victim I have read his letter and might find it in my heart to forgive him were it not that he has made you suffer; but that I cannot forgive; although, indeed, his coming blindness is something that pleads for him, and his fear of it--and his fear of losing you I am glad that you are coming home to me. —  Mistress Anne
• These different types are manifested from the very beginning of embryonic life; the characters distinguishing them are therefore primordial, and we can say with M. Milne-Edwards that everything goes to prove that the distinction established by Nature between animals belonging to different phyla is a primordial distinction_" (p. 58 In other directions also von Baer's work was confirmed and extended by later observers--those parts of it particularly that had reference to the germ-layer theory, and to the concept of histological differentiation. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• The selfish and ugly passions which are primordial--which have the incalculable strength of inheritance from the time when animal consciousness began--have had but little opportunity to grow weak from disuse. —  The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin
• She saw the coast of Kolyuchin Bay--primordial desolation, whirling dust-like snow, the unleashed wind yelling like a sabbath of witches, leaping and somersaulting from rock to rock, folly-stricken and insensate in its hideous dance of death. —  A Man's Woman

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