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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simplified spelling of
primitive .
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Firefox hz a moar primitiv retrieval system tahn ai wood hav ekspected.
Firefox has located your file - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Aceasta pare ca un pas înapoi din punct de vedere evolutiv, nefiind capabil să supravieţuiască pe cont propriu la naştere, dar mamifere au această inovaţie fantastică evolutive numita cortexul cerebral, care este un strat de materie adaptabilă creierului care înconjoară tulpina creierului primitiv, care mai mult de face pentru slăbiciunile noastre in timpul copilariei.
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Logically one may be both a chronological and a cul - tural primitivist, a chronological but not a cultural primitivist, a cultural but not a chronological primitiv - ist, or neither one nor the other.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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It is found in two forms, chronological and cultural, each of which may exist as “soft” or “hard” primitiv - ism.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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On the whole they excluded from primitive life all forms of hard primitiv - ism.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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And while holding (at least sometimes) a cyclic view of history he nevertheless describes the origins of civili - zation in terms which make no concession to primitiv - ism.
PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY E. R. DODDS 1968
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered evidence of a primitiv ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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