originative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- originatively adverb
Etymology
Origin of originative
Example Sentences
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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
On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
Limit opportunity, restrict the field of originative achievement, and you have cut out the heart and root of all prosperity.
From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Wilson, Woodrow
Thales, the pioneer of this philosophy, maintained that Water was the originative principle of all things.
From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by Marshall, John
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
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