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

What he lacked was depth of feeling, the sense of noble form, the originative force of a great mind.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

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)

There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought.

From Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life by Jones, Abel J. (Abel John)

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.