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Meanings of begit (begat) in English

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Usage of begat in English
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Sailors married queens and begat princesses and all the rest of it.
The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
2
The patience and fortitude with which they suffered, begat compassion, admiration, esteem.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
3
And Ird begat Ith, who was of no account, like his father.
A Dreamer's Tales
4
Envy begat envy, jealousy begat jealousy, pride begat pride, hatred begat hatred-
Police!!!
5
Our fathers that begat us have come to their own at last.
Medieval People
6
My initial questions begat many more: What is the purpose of the hero?
Turn left at the trojan horse: a would-be hero's american odysse...
7
The circumstances which brought together the two bodies which begat him?
Lord of Light
8
And Shez did live to an exceedingly old age; and he begat Riplakish.
The Book of Mormon / An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, U...
9
He lived for ninety winters in the world, and begat children.
Codex Junius 11
10
Our Price begat mobile-phone shops begat a thousand Poundlands and cafes.
The Guardian
11
The promise gave rise to hope and the warning begat fear.
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas
12
So did their masters' crops, whose bounty begat a population boom of humans.
The world without us
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The last begat Daksha, who in his turn, begat sixty daughters.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Money was being coined, and the making of money begat dreams.
Tropic Days
15
Dollars multiplied and begat great families of dollars-andBroadway glittered as never before.
The Parts Men Play
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He begat a multitude of sons and daughters before his death.
Codex Junius 11
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