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forebegotten

forebegotten adjective: begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.

Adjective

forebegotten (comparative more forebegotten, superlative most forebegotten)

  1. Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.
    • […] the doors She dashed to as she entered, crying out On Laius, long since dead, calling to mind His fore-begotten offspring, by whose hands He, she said, died, and left to his own seed Its mother's most unnatural bearing-bed.2012, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Forms of forebegotten

comparativemore forebegotten
superlativemost forebegotten
alternative formfore-begotten

Origin of forebegotten

From fore- + begotten.

Questions about forebegotten

What does forebegotten mean?
Forebegotten means begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.
What part of speech is forebegotten?
Forebegotten is an adjective.

Words near forebegotten in the dictionary

  1. forebearers
  2. forebearing
  3. forebears
  4. forebeat
  5. forebeats
  6. forebegotten
  7. forebelief
  8. forebeliefs
  9. forebelieve
  10. forebelieved
  11. forebelieves

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