originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

To appreciate fully his originative power one must understand the disadvantages under which he worked.

From Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

Man is originative in character; and poets—"of imagination all compact"—catch this new form of life, and we call the picture poetry.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

France before Rousseau was not the France of Victor Hugo; the former had work of an originative character to do in the social sphere, as Victor Hugo had in that of literature.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William