unbegotten

English

Alternative forms

• unbegot

Etymology

un- +‎ begotten

Adjective

unbegotten (not comparable)

1. Not begotten.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 119, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun.