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Begetter

noun
1.
A male parent (also used as a term of address to your father).  Synonyms: father, male parent.  Antonyms: mother, female parent.






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"Begetter" Quotes from Famous Books



... not hurt us, he who is the begetter of the earth, or he, the righteous, who begat the heaven; he who also begat the bright and mighty waters:—Who is the God to whom we shall ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... only begetter of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, which, in its seventy years of history, has known the touch of so many skilful editorial hands. Chapman issued it as a quarterly from the publishing house ...
— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... spake to each other, and they looked and a man they saw, Who should hew the wood if he lived, and for thralls the water should draw, A thrall-born servant of servants, begetter of thralls on the earth: And they said: "If this one were away, scarce greater were waxen the dearth That this morning hath wrought on the Eastland; for the years shall eke out his woe, And no day his toil shall lessen, and worse and ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris

... begetter is more common than father; for every father begets; but it is not so conversely. But a more common term is more properly applied to God, as stated above (Q. 13, A. 11). Therefore the more proper name of the divine person is ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

... man whose awe-inspiring appearance (when clothed in wig and gown) has quelled so many storms in the last four Parliaments. Let us hope that the fifth, of which, being the outcome of his famous Conference, he may in a sense be described as the "onlie begetter," will not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various


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