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Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again: the Doric capital was unimitative; but all the beauty it had was dependent on the precision of its ovolo, a natural curve of the most frequent occurrence.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

Thus, in the Doric temple, the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

To give that essence in increased quantity, and in the freedom of unimitative numbers, is attempted in this selection.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna