self-derived
- 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 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 Melville, Herman
In the earlier work, as we saw, the theories were postulated first, and the actions were measured against those self-derived standards of right and wrong.
From Harriet Martineau by Miller, Florence Fenwick
As its being is self-derived and original, it must be itself a substance.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
We have no independent, self-derived, or self-sustained life.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
