begets

[ bih-gets ]

verb

1. 3rd person singular present indicative of beget.

Word History and Origins

Origin of begets¹

beget ( def ) + -s ²( def )

Example Sentences

Feeling begets feeling, and great feeling begets great feeling.

From The Daily Beast

More begets more, and spending tends to stick at higher levels, which is why the phenomenon is known as “the flypaper effect.”

From The Daily Beast

The ideology of too big to fail begets behemoth banks even bigger now than they were before the financial crisis.

From The Daily Beast

Violence begets violence, and violence is destructive, and uncomfortable, and horrible, and he unravels.

From The Daily Beast

Success begets success, and the lack of failure begets lack of failure.

From The Daily Beast

Disdain of every reasonable objection begets that sublime victory of the vanquished which we call martyrdom.

From Project Gutenberg

Without himself having any shape, He begets shape whenever matter approaches Him.

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This radiation exists, and this existence alone begets something else.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus the primary movement (of Intelligence) finds its goal in time, begets it, and by its activity informs its duration.

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Civilization begets new needs and wants; opportunities for new invention are multiplying at a tremendous rate.

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