forebegotten

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Etymology[edit]

From fore- +‎ begotten.

Adjective[edit]

forebegotten (comparative more forebegotten, superlative most forebegotten)

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