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UK
/bɪɡˈɛtɐ/
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NOUN
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a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
his father was born in Atlanta
How To Use begetter In A Sentence
- Such conviction is the begetter of culture and history.
- The offspring must seek and love the begetter; and especially so when begetter and begotten are alone in their sphere; when, in addition, the begetter is the highest good, the offspring [inevitably seeking its Good] is attached by a bond of sheer necessity, separated only in being distinct. The Six Enneads.
- And they contrast not only as individuals, but in relationship to their fathers as begetters and whose reflections they bear.
- Some scholars have supposed that the word 'begetter' in this dedication means simply the procurer of the Sonnets for Thomas Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
- Elvis Presley was the true begetter of modern youth culture.
- At that time, Coleridge was the radical begetter of the Lyrical Ballads; and had he expired, he would, Holmes suggested, have been recalled as a meteoric talent, that - like that of Keats or Shelley - had burned all the brighter for its very brevity. Jura Duty
- “If there was an intellectual begetter of this movement, it was surely the biochemist Professor Michael Behe, whose book Darwin's Black Box in 1996 expounded the theory of irreducible complexity.” On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- But he was the real begetter of the Human Rights Act, and above all a defender of the judges.
- She was not the only begetter of this programme, but she dramatized its urgency.
- Elvis Presley was the true begetter of modern youth culture.