The Only Use of
beget
in
The Great Gatsby
- 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.†
p. 107.3
Definition:
to cause something -- especially to make children