misbegot

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13
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16
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8

Definition of misbegot

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
    “Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling Upon the head of valour; which indeed Is valour misbegot and came into the world When sects and factions were newly born:”
    “1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538, A Man defective born or misbegot To be therfor a Man deny wee not, Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can Of attributes essentiall to a Man.”
    “1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords, but who’s to say this love was misbegot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin
    “Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling Upon the head of valour; which indeed Is valour misbegot and came into the world When sects and factions were newly born:”
    “1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538, A Man defective born or misbegot To be therfor a Man deny wee not, Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can Of attributes essentiall to a Man.”
    “1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords, but who’s to say this love was misbegot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots”

verb

  1. (form-of, past)simple past of misbeget

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Etymology

From mis- + begot.

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