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Definition
to cause something — especially to make children- Frustration begets anger.
- Both science and religion beget humility.Hugh B. Brown -- An Abundant Life
- Christians believe Jesus was God's only begotten Son.Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church (retrieved 05/20/06)
- Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.William Shakespeare
- A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.Bertrand de Jouvenal
- Ideas beget ideas.London, Jack -- Jerry of the Islands
- In his truthful simple soul, not even the growing greed and worship of gold could beget any vice directly injurious to others.Eliot, George -- Silas Marner
- That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.Shakespeare, William -- King Henry V
- This would occasion distinctions, preferences, and exclusions, which would beget discontent.Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
- Do you know how many children I have buried—children I begot in my youth and strength?Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- And remember this, boys, God did not send His only begotten Son to hang on the cross so that ye can go around on yeer First Communion day with the paws clutching for The Collection.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
- This animal, this thing begotten in a bed, could look on Him.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- If, however, his commercial imagination was dead, he felt no contempt for the surviving actualities begotten by it.Henry James -- The American
- Mother .... full of grace .... you are the church .... may you understand this sacrifice of your only begotten son.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Of His own will begot He us with the word of truth, and we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Why am I bound to love him simply for begetting me when he has cared nothing for me all my life after?'Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- On my Christian conscience, this one christening will beget a thousand; here will be father, godfather, and all together.William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
- You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
begot = made
begotten = made