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originative

[uh-rij-uh-nay-tiv] / əˈrɪdʒ əˌneɪ tɪv /








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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

On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.

From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

Watts’s power, on the other hand, lies in his great originative and imaginative genius, and he reminds us of Æschylus or Michael Angelo in the startling vividness of his conceptions. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

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 John Addington Symonds

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 John Addington Symonds


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