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Lawfully-begotten   /lˈɔfəli-bigˈɔtɪn/   Listen
Lawfully-begotten

adjective
1.
Born in wedlock; enjoying full filial rights.





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"Lawfully-begotten" Quotes from Famous Books



... with them and he said to me, "O my lord and my brother, now have bread and salt passed between us and thou hast discovered our secret and our case; but secrets with the noble are safe." I replied, 'As I am a lawfully-begotten child and a well-born, I will not name aught of this nor denounce you!" They assured themselves of me by an oath; then they brought me out and I went my way, very hardly crediting but that I was of the dead. I lay ill ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... this man, but his parents, had sinned in forsaking the church—of which sin their offspring had now to bear the penalty, reaping the whirlwind sprung from the stormy seeds by them sown. For what were the puritans but the lawfully-begotten children of the so called reformation, whose spirit they inherited, and in whose footsteps they so closely followed? In the midst of such reflections, dawned slowly in the mind of the devout old man the enchanting hope ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald


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