What's the difference between begotten and only?

Begotten


Definition:

  • () of Beget
  • () p. p. of Beget.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The so-called "test-tube baby" enjoys more legal protection than the child begotten in the natural manner.
  • (2) Success in the shire elections has secured publicity, and thereby begotten more success – but that still leaves those shire election results themselves in need of explanation.
  • (3) And since the majority of corrupt officials are yet to be arrested, China cannot recover their ill-begotten assets.” The challenge of coordinating judicial practices across international borders is just one of the reasons why, despite support from governments and international institutions, the amounts recovered and returned has been woefully small compared to the vast sums of illicit flows.
  • (4) OK, at every public event in the US there is always someone holding up a sign reading "John 3:16", which is the biblical passage "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
  • (5) There is a centuries-long patterns of racialized American violence which defined our nation from even before General Washington and the Continental Army retreated to Valley Forge in 1777; violence has begotten more violence, over and over again, until it feels like we know few other responses .

Only


Definition:

  • (a.) One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.
  • (a.) Alone in its class; by itself; not associated with others of the same class or kind; as, an only child.
  • (a.) Hence, figuratively: Alone, by reason of superiority; preeminent; chief.
  • (a.) In one manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely.
  • (a.) So and no otherwise; no other than; exclusively; solely; wholly.
  • (a.) Singly; without more; as, only-begotten.
  • (a.) Above all others; particularly.
  • (conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration.

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