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Definition of "lawfully-begotten" []

  • Born in wedlock; legitimate; enjoying full filial rights; not illegitimate; -- of people. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "lawfully-begotten" in a sentence
  • "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?"
  • "What is called the "legitimate drama" has always found in pantomime just such a rival and a relative as Gloucester's lawfully-begotten son"
  • "I replied, 'As I am a lawfully-begotten child and a well-born, I will not name aught of this nor denounce you! ""
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