begotten
verb
a past participle of beget.
well-begotten
-
a word derived from
begotten.
Example Sentences
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The harsh requirements of apologetics have no doubt helped them to this position, from which one breath of spring or the sight of one well-begotten creature should be enough to dislodge them.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana
He celebrates fatherhood and motherhood, and the need of well-begotten, physiologically well-begotten, offspring.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
