underived

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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

Their error is, that they make them the proper and underived attributes of the world.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Thus the qualities of the four elements are ultimate and underived, but all other qualities must be founded upon the position and arrangement of particles of the four elements.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

"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

This underived, independent, immutable being is a Person who can speak to men, and can say 'I am.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander