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unˈgotten, ppl. a. Also 5 vngettyn, -getyn. [un-1 8 b.] 1. Unbegotten.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 14 For nouþer þe substanc of þe sone som-tyme vngetyn myȝt be called,..with-oute an onely gettyn sone of þe self. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. i. 571 He that shal sytte there is vnborne and vngoten. 1548Patten Exped. Scotl. A vij, Astyages..was..admonished yt he shoulde be ouercommen by a nephew of hys as yet then vngotten & vnborne. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 288 And some are yet vngotten and vnborne, That shal haue cause to curse the Dolphins scorne. 2. Not acquired, obtained, or won.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 107 b, The Frenchemen..seyng the strong fortres was ungotten,..fetched a compasse about. 1600Palfreyman Baldwin's Mor. Philos. 135 b, They that indeuour to get theyr husbandes or wiues by deceipts & charmes, may lightly get them, but better vngotten. 1628Feltham Resolves i. xlviii. 45 Let her wander, in a wearied sollicitude, after vngotten plenty. 1775Ash, Ungotten,..not gotten, not gained. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, To carry the map of an ungotten estate in your pocket is a poor sort of copyhold. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m. 197 Solid or ungotten coal forming the roof of a roadway. |