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beget
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    I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy.†  (source)
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    Men presumably dominated women from the very beginning because of their greater physical strength; it's men who earn a living, beget children and do as they please ...Until recently, women silently went along with this, which was stupid, since the longer it's kept up, the more deeply entrenched it becomes.†  (source)
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    King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful.†  (source)
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    She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.†  (source)
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    Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs.†  (source)
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    One idea only still throbbed life-like within me — a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them "Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help."†  (source)
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    Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.†  (source)
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    Life decays and reeks and returns to the rotted duff; a poignant wallow of death begetting life.†  (source)
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    "Sire, maker, begetter—there are a million names for what he did," Isabelle said distractedly.†  (source)
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    Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female, For me those that have been boys and that love women, For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted, For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the mothers of mothers, For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears, For me children and the begetters of children.†  (source)
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    Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbegotten means not and reverses the meaning of begotten. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.†  (source)
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    The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.†  (source)
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