Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being primary, or first in time, act, or intention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, in act, or in intention.
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- noun The quality or state of being
primary , or first in time, act, or intention.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Highest, Jaimini thinks; on account of primariness of meaning.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Whatever other objections have been made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness.
Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 John Ruskin 1859
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As a result, the primariness of Fluxus, for example, offers something more generally to our understanding of the arts at the time.
PORT Jeff Jahn 2010
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As a result, the primariness of Fluxus, for example, offers something more generally to our understanding of the arts at the time.
PORT Jeff Jahn 2010
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To recommend fraternal Christian love, and that from the excellence, or antiquity, or primariness of the injunction relating thereto: And this is the message (the errand or charge) which you heard from the beginning (this came among the principal parts of practical
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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