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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
beget .
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Examples
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I answered, ‘Thou art a mule which begetteth not’; so he left me in anger, saying, ‘When I come back from my journey, I will take another wife,’ for he hath villages and lands and large allowances, and if he begat children by another, they will possess the money and take the estates from me.
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
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He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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But, as excesse of delight is the Nurse to negligence, and begetteth such an overpresuming boldnesse, as afterward proveth to be sauced with repentance: so came it to passe with our over-fond
The Decameron 2004
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The king Proclaimeth rewarde vnto him, that within one yere begetteth most children.
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To thee, O Sun, by whose aid man begetteth man, to thee I appeal to help me and lighten the darkness of my wit that I may be able to proceed with scrupulous exactitude in giving an account of the great Sancho Panza's government; for without thee I feel myself weak, feeble, and uncertain.
Don Quixote 2002
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