beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
have begotten
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present perfectof beget.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Recent decades have seen the museum organised by way of a stately procession, in which art movements and -isms were shown to have begotten other movements and -isms.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2019
It is heartbreaking, and it drove home not only the pain in the loss of the children but also the generations they would have begotten.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016
This requires a change in laws that now permit a husband to disown a child that he could not have begotten in the usual manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would be very unhappy if I believed that I could have begotten valuable progeny with another woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yet not so poor,” the other replied politely, “for the women of your house do you credit, and you have begotten five healthy sons.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
