forebegotten

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forebegotten

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adjective more forebegotten · most forebegotten · fore-begotten

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.

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@misc{forebegotten_2026,
  title = {forebegotten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forebegotten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}