underived

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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.

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

Consciousness is, first, immediate consciousness, and its reference to the object accordingly the simple and underived certainty of it.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

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

In this sense no right divine nor compact can form a king; that is, a person, exercising underived and unreverting power.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel