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
Most intelligent people have found some happiness in learning that the dealings of God—that is, the creative and originative power behind the universe—are at all events not whimsical, however unintelligible they may be.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
Plato and Milton, Shakspeare and Dante, and Wordsworth, had imaginations tranquil, sedate, cool, originative, penetrative, intense, which dwelt in the “highest heaven of invention.”
From Spare Hours by John Brown
Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
And even these committees are less originative and more expressive of the general thought than they were at first.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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