begetter
Example Sentences
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In his later years, however, Capra cast himself as the sole begetter of any film he had directed.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2019
I don’t mean simply that the character Mr. Hawke plays — an initially enigmatic, eventually pathetic, finally endearing musician named Tucker Crowe — is the begetter of a begetter.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2018
Yeah, I’m aware that Code is put on by Recode, a Verge sibling under the great Vox Media begetter.
From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2016
In Boris Johnson's biography, he promotes the more liberal side of Churchill as the "begetter of some of the most progressive legislation for 200 years".
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015
Each man instructeth as did his begetter, repeating it unto his children.
From The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World by Ptahhotep
