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
Nothing, indeed, in the history of art is more remarkable than the fertility of this originative genius, no less industrious in labour than fruitful of results for men who followed him.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
Plato and Milton, Shakspeare and Dante, and Wordsworth, had imaginations tranquil, sedate, cool, originative, penetrative, intense, which dwelt in the “highest heaven of invention.”
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
By the mere act of volition He gave birth to the Logos, who was the real originative cause of things.
From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William
Man is originative in character; and poets—"of imagination all compact"—catch this new form of life, and we call the picture poetry.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
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