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be·get (bē get′, bi-)

transitive verb begot be·got′ or Archaicbegat be·gat′ (-gat′), begotten be·got′·ten or begot be·got′, begetting be·get′·ting

  1. to be the father or sire of; procreate
  2. to bring into being; produce tyranny begets rebellion

Etymology: ME begeten, to obtain, beget < OE begietan, to acquire: see be- & get

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beget Synonyms

beget

v.

father, sire, generate; see propagate 1.


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beget Usage Examples

Object

  • violence: The film sends out the same old message- violence begets violence.

Adjective complement

  • more: No-one with power in this world loves peace, only war and death which seems to beget more of the same.

Modifying Another Word

  • naturally: I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

Preposition: by

  • man: This heresy asserted that Christ was begotten by mortal man; thus denying Christ's Divine birth.
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beget quotes

Is there no way to beget In my limbs their former heat? Aeson had (as Poets fain) Baths that made him young again: Find that Medicine (if you can) For your dry-decrepit man: Who would but fain his strength renew, Were it but to pleasure you.

-Herrick, Robert

   The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could† If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

-Hopkins, SirAnthony

: Do not let him touch you! It is not true That drunken men cannot beget, And if he touch he must beget And you must bear his murderer. Deaf! Both deaf!

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

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