underived

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Jehovah, in its literal grammatical signification, puts emphasis upon the absolute, underived, and therefore unlimited, unconditioned, unchangeable, eternal being of God.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

The youth is seeking for himself a purely human merit, indigenous and underived.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

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

With the former, Buddha is intellectual essence, the efficient cause of all, and underived.

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

In the first place, a large number of rocks may be described as original or underived, for it is not possible to trace them back to any earlier source.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various