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
And the purpose of all and each of these moralists precludes the theory of free-will—i.e., the theory that our volitions are self-originating and unpredictable.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Safety and comfort are good, indeed, for the good; for the brave, the self-originating, the earnest.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
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
Although the force of example will always exercise great influence upon the formation of character, the self-originating and sustaining force of one's own spirit must be the mainstay.
From Character by Samuel Smiles
