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

Such is the originative, prophetic character of Phæacia, which the reader must take profoundly into his soul, if he would understand the genetic history of Greek spirit.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

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

The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

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