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  • 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.  (source)
    begotten = made
  • I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba's sympathy.†  (source)
  • Life decays and reeks and returns to the rotted duff; a poignant wallow of death begetting life.†  (source)
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  • I suppose there is something very special about an only begotten son.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Sex begot new life—the ultimate miracle—and miracles could be performed only by a god.†  (source)
  • Lies were told and then exposed, begetting more lies to explain away the initial deceptions.†  (source)
  • Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.†  (source)
  • "Sire, maker, begetter—there are a million names for what he did," Isabelle said distractedly.†  (source)
    begetter = someone who causes something -- especially to make children
  • 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)
    begetters = people who cause something -- especially people who make children (parents)
  • 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.
  • I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.†  (source)
  • 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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