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Beget vs Progenerate - What's the difference?

beget | progenerate |

As verbs the difference between beget and progenerate

is that beget is to cause; to produce while progenerate is to beget; to generate; to produce.

beget

English

Verb

  • To cause; to produce.
  • To father (rarely: to mother); to sire; to produce (a child).
  • To happen to; befall.

    • Quotations

    * , Genesis 5:3 *: And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: * {{quote-web, date=2012-02-01 , author=Kathy Gilbert, title=Pitching In, site=Chatter Chattanooga citation , passage=Rugby football was created in the early 1800s at England’s all-boys Rugby School. The sport begat American football, Gaelic football, Australian rules football and Association football (aka soccer).}}

    Related terms

    * begettal, unbegot, unbegotten

    See also

    * sire

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    progenerate

    English

    Verb

    (progenerat)
  • To beget; to generate; to produce.
    • to progenerate a race
    (Landor)
    (Webster 1913)