Primigenial

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    First of all; firstborn; primary; original. not-comparable

    "What difference is there, then, between God and primigenial chaos?"

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"What difference is there, then, between God and primigenial chaos?"

Etymology

From Latin primus (“first”) and genio (from generare (“to create”)), + -al.

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