begotten
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɪˈɡɒt.ən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒtən
Verb
begotten
- past participle of beget
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 5:4:
- And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred yeeres: and he begate sonnes and daughters.
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Adjective
begotten (not comparable)
- Brought into being by one's begetter(s).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 3:16:
- ¶ For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
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Derived terms
- begottenness
- forebegotten
- ill-begotten
- misbegotten
- only-begotten
- unbegotten