[f. BEGET v. + -ING2.] Producing, creative; chiefly in comb., as spring-begetting, life-begetting, etc.
1597. Drayton, Mortimer., 42. Like Promethian life-begetting flame.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. x. 126. Marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder.
