originative
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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
His imagination was not a primary power; it was not originative, though in a quite uncommon degree receptive, having the capacity of realizing the imaginations of others, and through them bodying forth the unseen.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
And of all this gifted company Coleridge, though not the strongest character or the most prolific poet, was the profoundest intellect and the most originative poetic spirit.
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Nor, in the second place, is the gold coin originative of the svastika-ornament; for we do not perceive the coin in the svastika, as we do perceive the threads in the cloth.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
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