beget
verb (used with object)
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
were begetting
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past progressiveof beget.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Besides, one word so, as it were, begetting another, as, be it in rhyme or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a near guess to the follower.
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir
Besides, one word so as it were begetting another, as be it in rime or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a near guess to the follower....
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
Besides, one word so as it were begetting another, as be it in rhyme or measured verse, by the former a man shall have a near guess to the follower.
From English literary criticism by Various
