underived

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In this sense no right divine nor compact can form a king; that is, a person, exercising underived and unreverting power.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

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

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

If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel

The old kindliness must be transplanted to a fresh soil if it were to blossom into a life self-sufficient and underived.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony