originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The creative power often confers no clearness of vision on its possessor; the best critics are seldom originative men.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

Man is originative in character; and poets—"of imagination all compact"—catch this new form of life, and we call the picture poetry.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

By the mere act of volition He gave birth to the Logos, who was the real originative cause of things.

From The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' by Sanday, William