Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Under the first order of things; at the beginning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a primordial manner
  • adverb With regard to a primordium

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Examples

  • The equality of us all is the natural implication of this recognition of universally innate Buddha-nature or Buddha-ness, the primordially pure and untrammeled inner light.

    Lama Surya Das: Who and What Is Buddha, Really? 2010

  • The equality of us all is the natural implication of this recognition of universally innate Buddha-nature or Buddha-ness, the primordially pure and untrammeled inner light.

    Who and What Is Buddha, Really? 2010

  • They do not make land and water, nor the substances from which humans and other living things will be made, but they take what exists and use it to "create" habitats and beings, to make a functioning cosmos out of the disorganized chaos or from whatever monolithic substance or entity primordially exists.

    Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Two James F. McGrath 2009

  • Instead, in primordially entertaining fashion, it hits all the marks at a healthy stride.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Instead, in primordially entertaining fashion, it hits all the marks at a healthy stride.

    My Bloody Valentine (2009) 2009

  • They do not make land and water, nor the substances from which humans and other living things will be made, but they take what exists and use it to "create" habitats and beings, to make a functioning cosmos out of the disorganized chaos or from whatever monolithic substance or entity primordially exists.

    Archive 2009-08-01 James F. McGrath 2009

  • Moreover, the evolution of human beings is just not the idea of human beings evolved as Machiavellian Primates who are physically positioned in the material world with the burning desires of worldly weal and woes, rather it is that humans are the most evolved in gradual progression from the world of thinking and feeling to a heightened world of spiritual dimension where selfishness is primordially sacrificed at the expense of selfness.

    Philosophy of Self-awareness 2008

  • Moreover, for those of you with the highest capabilities, there are no hindrances to be eliminated, since you will have stable realization of everything as being primordially parted from mental fabrication.

    Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008

  • This pure awareness, primordially unstained, has been underlying each moment of our experience with no beginning.

    Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission 2008

  • This pure awareness, primordially unstained, has been underlying each moment of our experience with no beginning.

    Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission 2008

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