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noun

The place where something begins, where it springs into being. Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source. "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation" , "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River" , "Communism's Russian root"

Properties attributable to your ancestry. Synonyms: descent, extraction.

An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. Synonyms: inception, origination.

The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.

The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived. "Vegetable origins" , "Mineral origin" , "Origin in sensation"

The descendants of one individual. Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.

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"Origin" Quotes from Famous Books

... through many countries, and does not exclusively belong to any one of the lands through which it wanders; so neither does it seem that these credulities belong to any one people or age; and it is difficult, if not impossible, to trace to their origin, omens, divination, magic, witchcraft, and other such cognate matters, which seem to ...

— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen

... Ned was now able to form a very much more correct idea of the entire locality than had before been possible; and as he stood critically examining the two basins, a suggestion as to their possible origin and that of the islands themselves presented itself to his mind. Seen from where he then stood the group bore a very strong resemblance to the crater of a long extinct volcano. To begin with, the ridge-like summits of the islands swept round in a form that was roughly ...

— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

... certainly God's will as love towards Himself? Have these solid, excellent people aught to say against the faithful devotion of a wife, or the patient tenderness of a mother, which are corner-stones of the family, as the family is the corner-stone of all true civilization? But what is the origin of the wife's devotion and the mother's tenderness? These people, surely, are as wist as they are solid. They would have ...

— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe

... acquiesce to this, to submit to the awful, obliterated sources which were the origin of his living tissue. He was not what he conceived himself to be! Then he was what he ...

— The Rainbow • D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

... addition to the sad state of our historical books, and what indeed is fundamentally the cause and origin of that, our common spiritual notions, if any notion of ours may still deserve to be called spiritual, are fatal to a right understanding of that seventeenth century. The Christian doctrines, which then dwelt alive in every heart, have now in a manner died out of all hearts—very mournful ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

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