underived

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Dharma is an entity underived, containing the spiritual elements and material constituents of the universe.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

Reasoning back by indubitable steps we come to an uncaused, unlimited, infinite Being, the underived and eternal source of all that is.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various