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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
primal /ˈprʌɪm(ə)l/

▶adjective

1 relating to an early stage in evolutionary development; primeval.

2 Psychology relating to or denoting feelings or behaviour postulated to form the origins of emotional life.

– derivatives
primally adverb.

– origin C17: from med. L. primalis, from L. primus ‘first’.

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