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 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

But Rome, while she lent her imperial quality of grandeur to the genius of her aliens, was in no sense originative.

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

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.

Plato and Milton, Shakspeare and Dante, and Wordsworth, had imaginations tranquil, sedate, cool, originative, penetrative, intense,  which dwelt in the “highest heaven of invention.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John