underived
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of underived
First recorded in 1620–30; un- 1 + derived ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
Mrs. Meredith and Rowan and the clergyman were left with the father and the children, and with an unexampled wedding collation—one of Pansy's underived masterpieces.
From The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen
Not less remarkable is the implication in these words, not only of the completeness of His message, but of the fullness of His knowledge of God, and its entirely underived nature.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Alexander Maclaren
He had true creative imagination, a fund of original, underived emotion, and a copiousness of invention almost as great as Wagner's or Mozart's.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman
All other being is derived, and therefore limited and changeful; this Being is underived, absolute, self-dependent, and therefore unalterable for evermore.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
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