derived
adjective
received, obtained, or arising from a particular source or in a particular way.
self-derived
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a word derived from
derived.
Example Sentences
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Forbid this child had an authentic, self-derived interest in science that hadn’t been formally assigned to her!
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2013
When the question was between the servants and the Court of Directors, the native power was asserted to be a self-derived, hereditary, uncontrollable authority, and encouraged to act as such.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
When the polite landsman first hears it from the gaunt Nantucketer, he is apt to set it down as one of the whaleman's self-derived savageries.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
In no greatest genius are all its talents self-derived.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by John Lord
The burning Bush and the Name of the Lord proclaimed the same great truth of self-derived, self-determined, timeless, undecaying Being.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
