Engender
[ɪn'dʒendə;en-] or [ɪn'dʒɛndɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
(v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
(v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
(n.) One who, or that which, engenders.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Generate, beget, procreate, breed.[2]. Produce, cause, occasion, give rise to, call forth.
Edited by Jonathan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Generate, produce, create, breed, propagate
ANT:Stifle, destroy, extinguish, neutralize, blight, prevent
Editor: Megan
Definition
v.t. to beget: to bear: to breed: to sow the seeds of: to produce.—v.i. to be caused or produced.—ns. Engen′drure Engen′dure act of engendering: generation.
Editor: Yvonne
Examples
- She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Johnson's course towards the South did engender bitterness of feeling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram's. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It could not be done, and the attempt to do it would inevitably engender suspicion. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- By 1878 the arc-lighting industry had sprung into existence in so promising a manner as to engender an extraordinary fever and furor of speculation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A new fear had been engendered in my mind by his narrative; or rather, his narrative had given form and purpose to the fear that was already there. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is very possible that it had been in my mind a long time, and had gradually engendered my determination. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It has engendered a fine concern about average people, about the voiceless multitudes who have been left to pass unnoticed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such speculations as it engendered within me I kept to myself, and those were faint enough. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His power, which was engendered and kept alive solely by belief, has departed, and he cannot help her, much as he desires to do so. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One invention engenders another, or co-operates with another. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He added as a self-evident proposition, engendering low spirits, But you can't marry, you know, while you're looking about you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Murray