Unbegotten

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not begotten. not-comparable

    "If care of our descent perplex us most, / Which must be born to certain woe, devour'd / By Death at last—and miserable it is / To be to others cause of misery, / Our own begotten, and of our loins to bring / Into this cursed world a woeful race, / That after wretched life must be at last / Food for so foul a monster—in thy power / It lies, yet ere conception, to prevent / The race unblest, to being yet unbegot."

Synonyms

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uncausedunmade

Example

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"Some say that God is unbegotten, or has always existed without needing a creator, but who's to say that the universe itself isn't unbegotten?"

Etymology

From un- + begotten.

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