The Only Use
beget
in
The Great Gatsby
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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.†
p. 107.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(beget) to cause something -- especially to make children
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)