ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Forebegotten

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Forebegotten is an adjective meaning Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.

Meaning

Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.

Example Sentences

[…] the doors She dashed to as she entered, crying out On Laius, long since dead, calling to mind His fore-begotten offspring, by whose hands He, she said, died, and left to his own seed Its mother's most unnatural bearing-bed.

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Related dictionary entries include foreconceiving, preconceived, aforewritten, forecreated, forewritten, forepurchased.

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