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
Most intelligent people have found some happiness in learning that the dealings of God—that is, the creative and originative power behind the universe—are at all events not whimsical, however unintelligible they may be.
From At Large by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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
And of all this gifted company Coleridge, though not the strongest character or the most prolific poet, was the profoundest intellect and the most originative poetic spirit.
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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 Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
