begetter

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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

In the first and principal place, there has been a tendency, almost general, to dethrone Walter Map from his old position as the real begetter of the completed Arthurian romance, and to substitute the Troyan.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George