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Lawfully-begotten   Listen
adjective
lawfully-begotten  adj.  Born in wedlock; legitimate; enjoying full filial rights; not illegitimate; of people.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lawfully-begotten" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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