originate
verb (used without object)
to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise.
self-originating
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a word derived from
originate.
Example Sentences
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I think anyone's religion, to be real and workable, has to be self-originating, forever creative.
From Time Magazine Archive
Safety and comfort are good, indeed, for the good; for the brave, the self-originating, the earnest.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
Is it self-originating, or is the cause of its being outside of itself?
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans
The Art of ancient Rome was a second-hand copy of the original and airy Greek,—often clever, but never vivid and self-originating.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
Energy of will, self-originating force, is the soul of every great character.
From An Iron Will by Orison Swett Marden
