Meaning of misbegot | Babel Free

Definitions

Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin

archaic

Examples

“Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling Upon the head of valour; which indeed Is valour misbegot and came into the world When sects and factions were newly born:”

“1661, George Wither, Vox Vulgi: A Poem in Censure of the Parliament of 1661, edited by W. Dunn Macray, Oxford: James Parker & Co., 1880, p. 28, lines 537-538, A Man defective born or misbegot To be therfor a Man deny wee not, Nor thinck wee those defects deprive him can Of attributes essentiall to a Man.”

“1992, Jack Hardy, “Forget-Me-Not” in the album Two of Swords, but who’s to say this love was misbegot with eyes as blue as forget-me-nots”

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