Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bring into existence; give rise to: "Every cloud engenders not a storm” ( Shakespeare).
- v. To procreate; propagate.
- v. To come into existence; originate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To breed; beget; generate.
- Hence To produce; cause to exist; bring forth; cause; excite: as, intemperance engenders disease; angry words engender strife.
- Synonyms To call forth, create, give rise to, occasion, stir up.
- To be caused or produced; come into existence.
- To come together; meet in sexual embrace.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
- v. To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of.
- v. To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- v. To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
- n. One who, or that which, engenders.
WordNet 3.0
- v. call forth
- v. make children
Etymologies
- From Middle French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre, from in- + generāre ("to generate"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre : in-, in; see en-1 + generāre, to produce; see generate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“All they engender is more ill-will, not faith in the coming technology. codeman38 writes:”
“Even if they never join such groups which is most often the case, young men are targeted by white-supremacist ideologues specifically because they know they are likely to act out on the belief system spread by the rhetoric they engender, which is often picked up and used by non-members who are nonetheless sympathetic.”
“But how his "sum-total of external conditions," acting upon _dead_ matter, can "engender" _living_ matter, is one of those "related heterogenetic phenomena" which he does not condescend to explain.”
“I feel that 21st century reader no longer has time, and the one way to kind of engender confidence in readers is that they feel like you've been over the prose and trimmed and trimmed and what's on the page is essential.”
“My hunch is that he may mean something like "engender" when he speaks of the way of bringing the spirit and tabernacle together.”
“I dont think we can say for certain what Joseph meant but it "engender" is a possible reading”
“Well, content-oriented blogs do not necessarily "engender" or attract bloggers with no differentiation between opinion.”
“For example, a certain “niceness gene” may engender religiosity and good citizenship.”
“These situations, unfortunately, engender arguments and fights at the very time the family should be there to support and comfort each other and their dying parent.”
“A "much, much tighter" fiscal policy, he says, may force the Federal Reserve to maintain its easy monetary policy—a stance that will engender concerns about inflation a concern and provide more opportunities in Treasury inflation-protected securities.”
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GRE 2014
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jwjarvis One doctor blamed excessive and unnecessary housecalls for engendering fears in the doctor “that he will lose his position if he fails to answer every call Sep 14, 2010