underived
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of underived
First recorded in 1620–30; un- 1 + derived ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The youth is seeking for himself a purely human merit, indigenous and underived.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
Thus the qualities of the four elements are ultimate and underived, but all other qualities must be founded upon the position and arrangement of particles of the four elements.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
I gather all that I would desire to say into three points: 'that Light' and its witnesses; the underived Light and the kindled lamps; the undying Light and the lamps that go out.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
Mark the grand 'I live'—the timeless present tense, which expresses unbroken, underived, undying, and, as I believe, divine life.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
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