begot

[ bih-got ]

verb

1. simple past tense and a past participle of beget.

begot

/ bɪˈɡɒt /

verb

1. See beget
   a past tense and past participle of beget

Example Sentences

I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.

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It was pursued into its utmost consequences; and a dangerous principle has begot a correspondent practice.

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A supposition of such a monster as Grace begot by Deformity, is poison to the mind of a young artist.

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Which of my favours, I might say bounties, hath begot and nourish'd This more than rude presumption?

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For the first time I felt utter futility, and was wrung by emotion that begot no action, by shame and pity beyond words.

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Related Words

• arising
• beginning
• starting
• stemming