self-originating
- 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
Energy of will, self-originating force, is the soul of every great character.
From An Iron Will by Marden, Orison Swett
And, so neither things which exist or come into being necessarily, nor things in the way of nature, come under the province of Art, because these are self-originating.
From Ethics by Aristotle
Safety and comfort are good, indeed, for the good; for the brave, the self-originating, the earnest.
From Health and Education by Kingsley, Charles
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 Bain, Alexander
