underived

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The simple and underived character of the moral faculty is maintained because of the superior authority attached to what is natural, as opposed to what is merely conventional.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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

These things can grow up, autochthonous and underived, out of the soil of human nature anywhere, granting certain social conditions. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

He had true creative imagination, a fund of original, underived emotion, and a copiousness of invention almost as great as Wagner's or Mozart's.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

In this mystic and apparently underived term, the a is broad, as in "ah!"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various