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 second was in no sense originative, mankind being occupied, quietly and industriously, in making themselves comfortable in the pleasant hush after the secular rattle of spear and shield.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

The freedom of will which he has is not really originative or creative power, but a capacity of voluntary correspondence with what is given him from beyond himself.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

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)