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Origination n.

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." "What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination."

Mode of production, or bringing into being. "This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars."

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Etymology of 'Origination'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Origination" Quotes from Famous Books

... approximately correct, the moment of imagination must be assigned to the third period (the second stage of the objective epoch) which fulfills all the sufficient and necessary conditions for its origination and for its ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

... they did, if they had been better read in the writings of previous thinkers; but I am not afraid that posterity will contradict me when I say, that either of them has done far greater service to the world in the origination and diffusion of important thought, than Sir W. Hamilton with all his learning; because, though indolent readers, they were both of them active and ...

— Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' • George Grote

... conclusions of their own judgment. Any more vulgar kind of timidity no one who knew Maurice would ever think of imputing to him, even if he had not given public proof of his freedom from it, by his ultimate collision with some of the opinions commonly regarded as orthodox, and by his noble origination of the Christian Socialist movement. The nearest parallel to him, in a moral point of view, is Coleridge, to whom, in merely intellectual power, apart from poetical genius, I think him decidedly superior. ...

— Autobiography • John Stuart Mill

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