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

Youth is daring and originative; middle age is less venturesome, but it possesses, on the other hand, a wider range of experience.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The will, therefore, as being more originative, has more to do with true or false judgments than the understanding.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various