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Begotten vs Besotten - What's the difference?

begotten | besotten |

As verbs the difference between begotten and besotten

is that begotten is while besotten is .

As an adjective besotten is

infatuated.

begotten

English

Verb

(head)
    • English irregular past participles

    besotten

    English

    Alternative forms

    * besotted

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • infatuated
  • :* Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan, ... — Time Magazine, "New Plays in Manhattan", 27 Jan; 1930
  • intellectually or morally blinded
  • :* ''... may have wakened whatever still remained of the gallant and high-spirited Polish nature in this morose and besotten old Stuart. — Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee), "The Countess of Albany", 1910
  • intoxicated
  • :* It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing. — Selma Lagerlöf, "The Girl From the Marsh Croft", Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1910
  • :* ''Now, one's mind is immediately brought to trips to Mexico by thousands of drunken, drug-besotten teenagers for "spring break" ..." — "The Mixed Blessing: Caritas in Veritate, Part III", 2009

    • Verb

    (head)
  • :* While you were besotten with Ringera, Mang'eli and Mau..... — archived forum, 2009