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

But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

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

Thales, the pioneer of this philosophy, maintained that Water was the originative principle of all things.

From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by Marshall, John

There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought.

From Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Jones, Abel J. (Abel John)