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

Limit opportunity, restrict the field of originative achievement, and you have cut out the heart and root of all prosperity.

From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Wilson, Woodrow

The will, therefore, as being more originative, has more to do with true or false judgments than the understanding.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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 Brown, John

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)