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
The second was in no sense originative, mankind being occupied, quietly and industriously, in making themselves comfortable in the pleasant hush after the secular rattle of spear and shield.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
I am directly or indirectly related as Will, as an originative cause of activity, with a larger portion of my organism, many parts of which are quite distinct from the cognitive portion.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
In other words they are affiliated, each according to its geographical position, to the chief originative centres.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
What he lacked was depth of feeling, the sense of noble form, the originative force of a great mind.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
