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Primitively

Primitively \Prim"i*tive*ly\, adv.

  1. Originally; at first.

  2. Primarily; not derivatively.

  3. According to the original rule or ancient practice; in the ancient style.
    --South.

Wiktionary
primitively

adv. In a primitive manner.

WordNet
primitively
  1. adv. with reference to the origin or beginning [syn: originally, in the beginning]

  2. in a primitive style or manner; "rather primitively operated foundries"

Usage examples of "primitively".

Fennella was the start of the direct path straight back to the real world, the restaurants, the shaded lights, stained-glass over green baize tables, women in expensive gowns playing seemingly expensive games that were at root primitively simple, even bars where the bartender bothered to remember your name.

But she was dressed so primitively in a tightly fitted cowskin bodice with sleeves cut to the elbows and an embroidered neckline, and a string skirt whose corded lengths revealed her thighs as she took a step forward.

In time the Heliopolitan version of the origin of Shu-Tafnuit must have appeared too primitively barbarous.

The thought of the nation for to-morrow was tangibly represented only by that hut twenty feet square, with its few nourishing acres, most primitively furnished, a teacher of no training in the art of teaching, a few tons of coal in a shed, a box of crayons, and perhaps a map.

The believers wrote the incantations in blessed words on tiny slips of paper and placed them in tiny, primitively carved amulets of oak and pine.

Their ways were ruder and more primitively Hyborian than those of the Aquilonians, their main concession to the ways of their more civilized southern neighbors being the adoption of the god Mitra in place of the primitive Bori –.

Their ways were ruder and more primitively Hyborian than those of the Aquilonians, and their main concession to the ways of their more civilized southern neighbors was the adoption of the god Mitra in place of the primitive Bori - a worship to which they returned, however, upon the fall of Aquilonia.