underived

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He had true creative imagination, a fund of original, underived emotion, and a copiousness of invention almost as great as Wagner's or Mozart's.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

These things can grow up, autochthonous and underived, out of the soil of human nature anywhere, granting certain social conditions. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew

Dharma is material essence, the plastic cause, and underived, a co-equal biunity with Buddha; or else the plastic cause, as before, but dependent and derived from Buddha.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

This underived, independent, immutable being is a Person who can speak to men, and can say 'I am.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

In that case, we thus have two equally real ultimate beings, each underived from the other, existing side by side from all eternity.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)