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Only-begotten

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Being the only child of one’s parent (especially one’s father) not-comparable
  2. 2
    One of the attributes of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father. not-comparable

    "Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God."

Etymology

From Middle English oonlybigeten, equivalent to only + begotten. Compare also Middle English only geten, oonly geten (“only-begotten”, literally “only-gotten”) and Middle English onbygoten, oon be-gotyn, one bygeten, oon bigetun, oon bigeten (“only-begotten”, literally “one-begotten”). Calque of Latin ūnigenitus, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονογενής (monogenḗs).

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