autochthonic
Example Sentences
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There was nothing traditional, nothing archaic, nothing autochthonic in their poor art.
From An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells
The dance is the primordial, autochthonic form of music; its foundation so to speak.
From Beethoven by George Alexander Fischer
You will certainly not adopt Niebuhr's autochthonic theory, where such facts lie before you.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
But Lincoln, his times, his death—great as any, any age—belong altogether to our own, and our autochthonic.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
