unbegotten

[ uhn-bi-got-n ]

adjective

1. not yet begotten; begotten; as yet unborn:

   decisions that will affect our unbegotten children.

2. without a beginning; eternal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unbegotten¹

First recorded in 1525–35; un- ¹ + begotten

Example Sentences

I think I have said enough, so that, when my God says 'God went up from Abraham,' or 'The Lord spoke to Moses,' or 'The Lord descended to see the tower which the sons of men had built,' or 'The Lord shut the ark of Noah from without,' you will not suppose the unbegotten God Himself went down or went up.

From Project Gutenberg

Sais was under the protection of the goddess Neit, the unbegotten mother of the sun.

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On a pillar of Memphis, now in the Berlin Museum, belonging to the time of the nineteenth dynasty, he is called "the only unbegotten begetter in the heaven and on the earth," "the god who made himself to be god, who exists by himself, the double being, the begetter of the first beginning."

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Yet in religious hymns the Zu�is celebrate Ahonawilona, "the Maker and Container of All, the All Father," the uncreated, the unbegotten, who "thought himself out into space".

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That this God begets a son, who is nevertheless his unbegotten self, and that by belief in the birth of God's eternal son, and in the death of the undying who died to satisfy God's vengeance, man may escape the consequences of the first man's error.

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