beget

How To Use beget In A Sentence

• Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense. The Feast of St. Joseph
• My faith, the very name begets a towering conceit wherever it goes," he answered, and he brought his stick down on the floor with such vehemence that the emerald and ruby rings rattled on his shrunken fingers. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• Clutter multiplied, begetting yet more clutter with no apparent involvement on his part. AMAGANSETT
• I will command him: Go and marry a harlot and beget the children of harlotry, and then I will tell him to send her and her children away. Gomer, daughter of Diblaim: Midrash and Aggadah.
• Third Jark hadn't been able to beget himself a son to carry on the tradition. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• Since the party's preferred historical narrative casts it as the only begetter of China's liberation and subsequent rise, this awkward complication is hard to overlook. China's Confucian makeover | Isabel Hilton
• It is, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of acquaintance; and, consequently, that which first opens the door and intromits us to instruct ourselves by the example of others, and to give examples ourselves, if we have any worth taking notice of and communicating. The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• He uses, however, a stronger phrase of himself in begetting them spiritually, "In Christ Jesus," implying both the Saviour's office and person. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
• There is kind provision made even against our frailties: as we are so constituted that time abundantly abates our sorrows, and begets in us that resignment of temper, which ought to have been produced by a better cause; a due sense of the authority of God, and our state of dependence. Human Nature and Other Sermons