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forebegotten en · ADJ

Etymology

From fore- + begotten.

Meanings

1. Begotten beforehand; conceived previously; foreconceived.
   • […] 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. 2012, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex:

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