underived

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It has sincerity, dignity, and reserve, yet it is both deeply impassioned and enamoringly tender; and it is as absolutely personal, as underived, as was Tristan forty years ago.

From Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Gilman, Lawrence

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

He assumes the Nous and matter as existing from the beginning, side by side, as equally ultimate and underived principles.

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

"Firstly,—if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

Consciousness is, first, immediate consciousness, and its reference to the object accordingly the simple and underived certainty of it.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich