begotten Definition

beget
verb begot (past tense), begat, begotten (past participle), begetting (present participle)

1. rather formal
To cause; to give rise to something.
Example: Envy begets strife
Thesaurus: propagate, father, sire, generate, breed, procreate, produce, spawn, create, engender.
2. Especially in the Authorized Version of the Bible: to be the father of someone.

Example: Abraham begat Isaac

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon begietan in the sense ‘to acquire' or ‘get'.

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