underived

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Mark the grand 'I live'—the timeless present tense, which expresses unbroken, underived, undying, and, as I believe, divine life.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

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

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

"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

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)