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Begetter

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






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"Begetter" Quotes from Famous Books



... for Nannaru[4] I build the precinct, for the revolver of seasons sanctuaries I build, a temple I build. 16 In heaven he laid the hand; for the revolver of seasons sanctuaries I build, a temple I build. 17 In the beginning (thou art) my begetter; in the beginning (thou art) my begetter. 18 In the beginning the goddess spoke thus to men: 19 The Lady of heaven,[5] the divinity of the zenith, (am) I. 20 The Lady of heaven, the divinity of the dawn, (am) I. 21 The Queen of heaven, the opener of the locks ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous

... the realistic method alone denoted the Novel, Defoe, not Richardson, might be called its begetter. "Robinson Crusoe," more than twenty years before "Pamela," would occupy the primate position, to say nothing of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," antedating Richardson's first story by some fifteen years. Certainly the observational method, the love of detail, the grave narrative ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton



Words linked to "Begetter" :   pappa, pop, pa, mother, pater, female parent, papa, daddy, male parent, old man, dad, beget, parent, father-in-law, dada



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