create
verb (used with object)
to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
self-creating
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a word derived from
create.
Example Sentences
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Marshall lacked the self-creating fire of a Washington, the scattershot genius of a Jefferson and the inner demons of a Hamilton.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
On one level, since there has always been great television, this just means that people — critics, and the rest of you — have been given permission, by the self-creating zeitgeist, to take it seriously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
The Czech nickname for them is Samorost, which translates roughly as self-creating.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
She is as young as on the first day; and the Alps are a symbol of the self-creating, self-sufficing, self-enjoying universe which lives for its own ends.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Thou art the one self-perfect life, and we Who trust thy life, therein join on to thee, Taking our part in self-creating light.
From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
