(a.) Original; primitive; pure; uncorrupted by civiliation\; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

aboriginal ancestral angelic antepatriarchal artless atavistic autochthonous basal basic blameless bright callow central chaste childlike clear crucial dewy dovelike earliest elemental elementary embryonic ever-new evergreen extra faultless first firsthand fledgling fresh fundamental generative genetic germinal green guiltless harmless held back held in reserve held out humanoid immaculate immature in abeyance in embryo in hand in ovo in the clear in the raw inartificial incorrupt initial innocent intact inviolate lamblike maiden maidenly mint native natural neoteric nestling new not guilty offenseless original patriarchal preadamite preglacial pregnant prehistoric prehuman prelapsarian primal primary prime primeval primitive primogenial primoprimitive primordial protogenic protohistoric protohuman pure put aside put by radical raw reproachless reserve rudimentary sans reproche saved scatheless seminal sempervirent sinless spare spotless stored suspended to spare unapplied unbeaten unbroken unbruised unconsumed uncorrupted undamaged undefaced undefiled undeformed undemolished undestroyed undeveloped unemployed unexercised unexpended unfaded unfallen unfledged unhandled unharmed unhurt unimpaired uninjured unlapsed unmaimed unmangled unmarked unmarred unpolluted unscarred unscathed unscratched unshattered unspent unspoiled unsullied untapped untarnished untorn untouched untouched by evil untried untrodden unused unutilized unwithered unworn vernal virgin virginal waived with clean hands without reproach young