Uncreative

a. (UN-¹ 7 and 5 b.)

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a. 1772. Graeme, Elegy, xxviii. 5, in Anderson, Poets, XI. 436.

	Suppose a mite, like potentates and kings,
	Can plead antiquity, and boast of birth;
	That not a mushroom or a maggot springs
	From the cold womb of uncreative earth.

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1826. Mrs. Shelley, Last Man, III. vii. 221–2. It had been the mere plaything of nature, when first it crept out of uncreative void into light.

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1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. viii. VI. 566. The East … settled down in unprogressive, uncreative acquiescence, and went on copying that type.

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