How do you pronounce begotten?

The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈɡɒt.ən/.

begotten

/bɪˈɡɒt.ən/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

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"And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred yeeres: and he begate sonnes and daughters."
"¶ For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life."

begottenness forebegotten misbegotten unbegotten

ill-begotten only-begotten

gotten forgotten cotton rotten wotton cotten hotten shotten

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