begotten
verb
a past participle of beget.
self-begotten
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a word derived from
begotten.
Example Sentences
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Is it by self-effort only, put forth from a stimulus self-begotten?
From National Character A Thanksgiving Discourse Delivered November 15th, 1855, in the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church by Nathaniel Clark Burt
He had seen in his time many quarrels spring from the flimsiest of motives, but surely never had he seen one quite so self-begotten.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
The inscriptions say of the great Bennu that "it was self-begotten," that "it caused the divisions of time to arise."
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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 Francis Sydney Marvin
