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unbegot

unbegot is the archaic form of unbegotten.

Meaning of unbegotten

Adjective

unbegotten (not comparable)

  1. Not begotten.
    • If care of our descent perplex us most, / Which must be born to certain woe, devour'd / By Death at last—and miserable it is / To be to others cause of misery, / Our own begotten, and of our loins to bring / Into this cursed world a woeful race, / That after wretched life must be at last / Food for...1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Origin of unbegot

From un- + begot.

Questions about unbegot

What is unbegot the archaic form of?
Unbegot is the archaic form of unbegotten.

Words near unbegot in the dictionary

  1. unbeginning
  2. unbeginningly
  3. unbeginningness
  4. unbegirt
  5. unbeglamoured
  6. unbegot
  7. unbegotten
  8. unbegottenly
  9. unbegottenness
  10. unbegrimed
  11. unbegrudged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbegot (page history and authors); unbegotten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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