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unbegotten

unbegotten adjective: not begotten.

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...
    • Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 119

Forms of unbegotten

alternative formunbegot

Origin of unbegotten

From un- + begotten.

Words formed from unbegotten

Questions about unbegotten

What does unbegotten mean?
Unbegotten means not begotten.
What part of speech is unbegotten?
Unbegotten is an adjective.

Words near unbegotten in the dictionary

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

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