Meanings
verb
- participlepastpast participle of beget
And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred yeeres: and he begate sonnes and daughters.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:4
adjectivebegotten (not comparable)
- not comparableBrought into being by one's begetter(s).
¶ 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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:16
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of offspring) generated by procreation
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