self-begotten
- a word derived from begotten.
Example Sentences
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Milton uses the same word: Like that self-begotten bird In th' Arabian woods embost.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel
He is depicted in the form of a man having a beetle for a head, and this insect became his emblem because it was supposed to be self-begotten and self-produced.
From Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Our ideals of action must be self-made or self-begotten, but yet they must be congruent with known fact; but the manner of such congruence is hard to see, hard to express.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
From Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
In another place he calls God the vital power in the tree of life, the creatures His branches, and Nature the perfection and self-begotten of God.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
