Citations:primævalism

Noun:

 * 1878, Goldwin Smith in The Twentieth Century, C. Kegan Paul & Co.; Volume III, page #882:
 * We might in the same way trace in the character of David the growing element of spiritual life in combination with the tribalism which makes him torture to death, like any Assyrian, as creatures to whom no mercy can be due, the inhabitants of a captured city, and the primævalism which makes him, when his own hand is restrained by a formal piety, bequeath what the civilised conscience would regard as a most immoral legacy of vengeance to his son.
 * 1880, Wilfred Powell, Wanderings in a Wild Country, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; page #279:
 * The trade carried on with these islands is itself a terrible destroyer of their primævalism, supplying goods from Europe that superseded their ancient and original manufactures, and cause them in a few years to die out and be lost.
 * 1891, John Dando Sedding, Garden‐Craft Old and New, John Lane; Chapter VIII, page #185:
 * This disdain for Art in a garden, this abhorrence of symmetry, this preference for the rude and shaggy, what is it but a new turn given to old instincts, the new Don Quixote sighing for primævalism !