begetting

Speech parts

1. begetting - Noun

2. begetting - Verb

Derived from beget

Meaning

of Beget

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An automated revolution in biotechnology, where cheap computing meets mass-reproducible synthetic biology, begetting an industry with the potential to surpass anything that went before it. Source: Internet

Finally, the meat in “Digger” is in its study of abandoned masculinity begetting abandoned masculinity. Source: Internet

Egyptian pharaohs are known to have been referred to as the son of a particular god and their begetting in some cases is even given in sexually explicit detail. Source: Internet

Origin: 1250–1300; ME engin < AF, OF < L ingenium nature, innate quality, esp. mental power, hence a clever invention, equiv. to in- + -genium, equiv. to gen- begetting; Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2006. Source: Internet

For there is not now necessity of begetting children, as there then was, when, even when wives bear children, it was allowed, in order to a more numerous posterity, to marry other wives in addition, which now is certainly not lawful." Source: Internet

In the Zohar, however, Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam during their short-lived sexual experience. Source: Internet

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