3 uses
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Definition
to cause something — especially to make children
- I like you because I have those same qualities in me and like begets liking.3.19 (89% in)
- There were too many Irish ancestors crowding behind Gerald's shoulders, men who had died on scant acres, fighting to the end rather than leave the homes where they had lived, plowed, loved, begotten sons.3.24 (63% in)
- Rhett was her husband and between them there was the unbreakable bond of two people who have shared the same bed, begotten and borne a loved child and seen that child, too soon, laid away in the dark.5.60 (27% in)
There are no more uses of "beget" in Gone with the Wind.
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