underived

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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

The power of the intellect is not some underived, original, independent power which can impose or, better, superimpose its categorical imperatives upon human conduct.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

He assumes the Nous and matter as existing from the beginning, side by side, as equally ultimate and underived principles.

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

He whose being is eternal, underived, self-sufficing, self-determining, knowing no variation, no diminution, no age, He who is because He is and that He is, dwells in His fulness in our Saviour.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

The youth is seeking for himself a purely human merit, indigenous and underived.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.