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  • noun Plural form of begetter.

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Examples

  • There he slipped into another band, D:Ream, best known as the begetters of the 1997 New Labour anthem

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • All of these lists of begetters and those begotten (Gen 4: 17 – 26; 5: 1 – 32; 10: 1 – 32) are comprised of male names with one exception, the family of Lamech, an ancestor appearing in the sixth generation after Cain.

    Zillah: Bible. 2009

  • The Heart of Sky and the Heart of Sea are the bearers, begetters, modelers, and makers of the world (Tedlock, 1996 at 30-31).

    The Hero Cycle in Maya Myth & Culture 2007

  • When we are dealing with words that also are a constituent act, like the Constitution of the United States, we must realize that they have called into life a being the development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • When we are dealing with words that also are a constituent act, like the Constitution of the United States, we must realize that they have called into life a being the development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters.

    Constitutional blood. Ann Althouse 2005

  • "Democracy" is high on the list of blur-begetters--not a weasel word so much as a huge rampaging Kodiak bear of a word.

    Democracy No Cure-All Steve Sailer 2005

  • As noted above, there is little in the book about the onlie begetters of books, namely the authors.

    British book publishing as a business -- part 6 Michael Allen 2005

  • "Democracy" is high on the list of blur-begetters--not a weasel word so much as a huge rampaging Kodiak bear of a word.

    Archive 2005-02-27 Steve Sailer 2005

  • They turned to hurry us, themselves the begetters, and we laggard strangers: strove to make us comprehend the full intensity of their belief; forgot us; flashed out the means and end of our desire.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Robert was the tenth Lord Annan, so she spoke of the Malcolm who had married the Graham, the begetters of the blood feud.

    Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002

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  • Get your Fathers' Day phone home off to a ripping start with 'Hi Begetters!'

    August 15, 2008