Unbegotten

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 b.] Ungenerated.

1532.  Sir T. More, Confut. Tindale, IV. Wks. 580/2. Wherein the sonnes will that is yet vnbegotten, can nothyng make nor marre.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 40. By the Scriptures we teach … that the essence as well of the Sonn as of the Holy ghost is vnbegotten.

1587.  Golding, De Mornay (1592), 133. The world euerlasting and unbegotten.

1613–31.  Primer our Lady (1669), 367. Glorie to th’ unbegotten Father, And to the sole begotten Son.

1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 36. 587. The First Divine Hypostasis is altogether Unbegotten from any other.

1852.  trans., S. Gregory Nazienzen, in A. P. Forbes, Expl. Nicene Creed, 262. xv. We must believe in one God, the Father, without beginning and unbegotten.

1884.  Addis & Arnold, Cath. Dict. (1897), 895/2. The Father is unbegotten, the Son begotten.

  Hence Unbegottenly adv., Unbegottenness.

1631.  I. R., Pair Spectacles, ix. 340. Consubstantiality of the sonne, Diuinity of the Holy Ghost, and euen vnbegottenesse of the Father.

1736.  Chandler, Hist. Persec., 49. The son co-exists with God unbegottenly.