beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
had begotten
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past perfectof beget.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son.
From Time Magazine Archive
For 100 years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
These are the children of the past, he reminded himself, the same past that had begotten the children of space.
From The Ties That Bind by Miller, Walter M.
No warrior, according to German faith, could gain entrance to Valhalla unless he had begotten a son.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
