begotten
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /bɪˈɡɒt.ən/
Verb
  1. Past participle of beget
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By 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.
Adjective

begotten (not comparable)

  1. Brought into being by one's begetter(s).
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By 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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