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Word Meanings - PRISTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

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  • PRINCIPALNESS
    The quality of being principal.
  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • CHIEFLESS
    Without a chief or leader.
  • FOREMOST
    First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak. (more info) superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist,
  • PRIMORDIALLY
    At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
  • PRINCIPALITY
    preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • LEADING EDGE
    same as Advancing edge, above.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • ANTIQUATION
    The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
  • PRIMITIVENESS
    The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
  • PRIMEVALLY
    In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • PRECEDENTLY
    Beforehand; antecedently.
  • OBSOLETENESS
    Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
  • ANTIQUATED
    Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
  • CHIEFEST
    First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
  • PECULIARNESS
    The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
  • OBSOLETE
    Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
  • ANTIQUENESS
    The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • ELIMINATIVE
    Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
  • NOMINATIVELY
    In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
  • EMANATIVE
    Issuing forth; effluent.
  • DOMINATIVE
    Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
  • STERNFOREMOST
    With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
  • REGNATIVE
    Ruling; governing.
  • POT LEAD
    Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
  • COORDINATIVE
    Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
  • COUNTERPLEAD
    To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

 

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