All 10 Uses of
beget
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- How then could my soul beget a flunkey like you?†
Chpt 11
- "Yes, it's a fearful thing to shed a father's blood—the father who has begotten me, loved me, not spared his life for me, grieved over my illnesses from childhood up, troubled all his life for my happiness, and has lived in my joys, in my successes.†
Chpt 12
- No, let us prove that the progress of the last few years has touched even us, and let us say plainly, the father is not merely he who begets the child, but he who begets it and does his duty by it.†
Chpt 12
- No, let us prove that the progress of the last few years has touched even us, and let us say plainly, the father is not merely he who begets the child, but he who begets it and does his duty by it.†
Chpt 12
- "Oh, of course, there is the other meaning, there is the other interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that any father, even though he be a monster, even though he be the enemy of his children, still remains my father simply because he begot me.†
Chpt 12
- The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and blood, and therefore you are bound to love him.'†
Chpt 12
- The youth involuntarily reflects: 'But did he love me when he begot me?' he asks, wondering more and more.†
Chpt 12
- 'Was it for my sake he begot me?†
Chpt 12
- Why am I bound to love him simply for begetting me when he has cared nothing for me all my life after?'†
Chpt 12 *
- "Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night of which so much has been said to-day, when the son got over the fence and stood face to face with the enemy and persecutor who had begotten him.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(beget) to cause something -- especially to make children