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Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else..
1973, Philip Gardner, E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge, 2002, Introduction, p. 19, The influence of Meredith on his comic attitude was pointed out, btu Forster’s entirely unimitative style freed him from any charge of slavishness.
The Kind Parent of all created beings sees the struggles of His weak children […] He sees—pities and assists; raises them from the dust; points out their path, and accelerates their flight to Heaven. Oh! how unimitative of his beneficence are the fellow-creatures of the fallen!
[…] in the Doric temple the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.
Use unimitative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unimitative means Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else..
Common synonyms include inventive, novel, original.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1973, Philip Gardner, E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage, London: Routledge, 2002, Introduction, p. 19, The influence of Meredith on his comic attitude was pointed out, btu Forster’s entirely unimitative style freed him from any charge of slavishness.
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