Meaning of unimitative | Babel Free

Definitions

Not imitative, not imitating or modelled after something else.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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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