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Originative  adj.  Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Originative" Quotes from Famous Books



... The originative part of America, the part of America that makes new enterprises, the part into which the ambitious and gifted workingman makes his way up, the class that saves, that plans, that organizes, that presently spreads its enterprises until they have a national scope ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... from Rome nor from the extensive kingdom of Naples, does Italian painting take its origin, or at any period derive important contributions.[119] Lombardy, with the exception of Venice, is comparatively barren of originative elements.[120] To Tuscany, to Umbria, and to Venice, roughly speaking, are due the really creative forces of Italian painting; and these three districts were marked by strong peculiarities. In art, as in politics, Florence and Venice exhibit distinct ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... have for maybes?" Well, I reply, the {59} 'scientific' life itself has much to do with maybes, and human life at large has everything to do with them. So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes. Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe; not a service, not a sally of generosity, not a scientific exploration or experiment or ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James



Words linked to "Originative" :   uncreative, fanciful, yeasty, germinal, creative thinking, fictive, creative, creativeness, seminal



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