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

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

And of all this gifted company Coleridge, though not the strongest character or the most prolific poet, was the profoundest intellect and the most originative poetic spirit.

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

And even these committees are less originative and more expressive of the general thought than they were at first.

From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)