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/ɛndʒˈɛndər/ /ɪndʒˈɛndər/ Listen

verb

Engender v. t. (past & past part. engendered; pres. part. engendering)

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. (R.)

To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. "Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth."

Synonyms: To breed; generate; procreate; propagate; occasion; call forth; cause; excite; develop.

Engender v. i.

To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. "Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there."

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender."

noun

Engender n. One who, or that which, engenders.

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Etymology of 'Engender'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... roads, fields choked with weeds, and an absence of life and traffic in the melancholy streets, have a depressing influence. The people are harassed by a vexatious and uncertain system of fees and taxes, calculated to engender ill feeling, and things connected with ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... were as yet only just coming in sight of the stage where these most complex of all phenomena can be fruitfully studied on positive methods, and he was content with doing as much as he could to expel other methods from men's minds, and to engender the positive spirit and temper. Comte, on the other hand, presumed at once to draw up a minute plan of social reconstruction, which contains some ideas of great beauty and power, some of extreme absurdity, and some which would be very mischievous ...

— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) - Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography • John Morley

... industry and the accomplishment of great works. But in the hands of the heirs of these men colossal fortunes become social nuisances waste labour breed luxury create unhappiness by propagating factitious wants too often engender vice and are injurious for the most part to real civilization. The most malignant feelings which enter into the present struggle have been generated especially in England by the ostentation of idle wealth in contrast with surrounding poverty. No really high nature covets such a ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

... abstinence and purification, for in the former case they make tears come from those who use them, and in the latter they create thirst. For much the same reason they likewise look upon the pig as an impure animal, and to be avoided, observing it to be most apt to engender upon the decrease of the moon, and they think that those who drink its milk are more subject to leprosy and such-like cutaneous diseases than others. The custom of abstaining from the flesh of the ...

— Legends Of The Gods - The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations • E. A. Wallis Budge

... to doubt the wisdom or convenience of any government whatever, except such as was spontaneously furnished by the generous and magnanimous instincts of her people. There were no towns, and none of the vice and selfishness which crowded populations engender. Roads, bridges, public works of any sort were unknown; the population seldom met except at races or to witness court proceedings. The great planters lived in comparative comfort, but they were as much in love with freedom as were the common people. This state of things was the outcome of the ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

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