Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who begets or procreates; a father.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who begets; a father.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
procreator ; one whobegets . - noun figuratively An
originator ; acreator .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
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Examples
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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. Plotinus 1952
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Thorpe rarely used words with much exactness. {403b} It is obvious that he did not employ 'begetter' in the ordinary sense.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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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 Oscar Wilde 1877
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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.
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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.
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He was the only national newspaperman along with provincial compatriot JBG Thomas of the Western Mail to cover the full Lions tours of 1950 and 1955, was for more than 30 years the only begetter of the invaluable Rothmans Rugby Annual.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating 2011
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If there was an intellectual begetter of this movement, it was surely the biochemist Professor Michael Behe, whose book Darwin's Black Boxin 1996 expounded the theory of irreducible complexity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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If there was an intellectual begetter of this movement, it was surely the biochemist Professor Michael Behe, whose book Darwin's Black Boxin 1996 expounded the theory of irreducible complexity.
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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 2007
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“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... 2009
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