Preguntas sobre ejemplos de oraciones con, y la definición y uso de "Begotten"

A: It means when a parent has a child (usually talking about the father).

begotten son = his son that he helped create

Misbegotten child = a child the man had outside of marriage.

Misbegotten now also describes bad ideas (it derives from the idea that children out of wedlock were bad ideas/decisions).

A: To "beget" is to become the father of a child. "Begotten" is the past participle of "beget," so a child is begotten by its father.

The word can also be used figuratively to describe the making of an idea or plan. A very bad idea might be called "misbegotten."

A: It's a very uncommon word, I doubt you will ever use it in a conversation, but you may use it when writing something formal.