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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For 100 years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Her training as a dancer had begotten a feeling of meticulous form which the expansive harmonies of Wagner disconcerted.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
In addition, he had begotten one child out of marriage, and left the mother and child to starve.
From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair
