primally

English

Etymology

From primal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

primally (comparative more primally, superlative most primally)

1. In a primal manner.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Chapter 9‎^[1]:

     As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.

   • 1909, Percival Lowell, The Evolution of Worlds:

     The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.