begetter

noun

1. A procreator; one who begets.

   “Our fond Begetters, who would never die, Love but themselves in their posteritie.”

   “It was a mirror now, And in it a long perspective I could trace Of my begetters, dwindling backward each past each All with the family look, Whose names had since been inked down in their place On the recorder’s book, Generation and generation of my mien, and build, and brow.”

2. (figuratively)An originator; a creator.

   “To the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets Mr. W. H. all happinesse and that eternitie promised by our ever-living poet wisheth the well-wishing adventurer in setting forth.”

   “He was neither a wit nor a croquet champion, a hypnotic force nor a begetter of amateur theatricals.”

   “Rumours are the begetters of gossip. Even more are they the begetters of song.”

   “The [Metropolitan] line's begetter, Charles Pearson, had died of dropsy on 14 September 1862. He had naturally refused a payment from the Metropolitan in return for his advocacy of the line, but the company paid an annuity of £250 to his widow.”

   “As the sponsor and begetter of extremism, it was only the army which could take on religious extremism along the north-western marches and the ‘secular’ brand of terrorism down south in Karachi.”