self-originated
- a word derived from originate.
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Jones was also a prolific writer of children’s books, including self-originated fairytales such as Nicobobinus.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020
This emblem of the fountain beautifully suggests the great thought of God's own loving will as the self-originated impulse by which He pours out all good.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
Much of this—most of it—was entirely his own, self-originated and self-sustained, and done for its own sake, “All too happy in the pleasure Of his own exceeding treasure.”
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
It, therefore, no more excuses or palliates, than does any other self-originated quality in sin.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)
Greek art is essentially self-originated, the product of a unique, incommunicable genius.
From A History of Greek Art by Tarbell, Frank Bigelow
