engender

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And here I speak of the generation whereby they do engender, and not of that whereby they are engendered, because it should be too long to entreat how the children of light are engendered, and how they come in at the door; and how the children of the world be engendered, and come in another way.

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  1. transitive verb To bring into existence; give rise to: "Every cloud engenders not a storm” (Shakespeare).
  2. transitive verb To procreate; propagate.
  3. intransitive verb To come into existence; originate.

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  • All the extra profit these engender will be split with Mark. —  EQMM, July2006
  • An ambitious attempt to re-engender masala cinema from the ashes. —  NAACHGAANA
  • All these words, and the concrete actions they engender-via both political means, and jihad terrorism-debunk widely accepted tropes that Hamas is merely a nationalist movement, albeit religious, desiring a "Palestinian homeland" in the territories of Gaza (which it already possesses), Judea, and Samaria. —  Jihad Watch
  • He said the youths should realize that they were occupying a position that could engender or hinder the development of the oil rich region, and urged the them to stay out of violence. —  Vanguard News
  • It's another variation on the infinite loop of non-communication such authenticaton methods can engender (the more common variation is the invisible and eternal conversation your autoresponder might have with my autoresonder, were we both to use that method of authenticaton). —  ClickZ News
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engender:   engendered ·  engenders
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre : in-, in; see en-1 + generāre, to produce; see generate.

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  1. Formerly also ingender; from Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, French engendrer = Provencal engenrar, engendrar = Spanish Portuguese engendrar = Italian ingenerare, from Latin ingenerare, beget, from in, in, + generare, beget, produce, generate: see generate and gender.
 

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/ɛnˈdʒɛndər/
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