begetter

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Begetter of the murals was the Library of Congress' Poet-Director Archibald MacLeish, at whose gentle inquiry President Vargas of Brazil put up $4,000 to send Painter Portinari to Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Begetter" has been variously interpreted as inspirer of the Sonnets or as partner in the commercial enterprise of their publication.

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

Hence the very fact that in God a distinction exists of the Begotten from the Begetter as regards relation only, belongs to the truth of the divine generation and paternity.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"The Word of Wisdom, Who is Himself this God, begotten of the Father of all things, and Word, and Wisdom, and Power, and the Glory of the Begetter, will bear evidence to me," &c.

From The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by Sadler, Michael Ferrebee

Since, therefore, the divine generation is most perfect, that by which the Begetter begets, is common to Begotten and Begetter by a community of identity, and not only of species, as in things created.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint