underived

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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

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

Jehovah, in its literal grammatical signification, puts emphasis upon the absolute, underived, and therefore unlimited, unconditioned, unchangeable, eternal being of God.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

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)

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