engender

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Rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)

From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.

obsolete, transitive To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
transitive To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
transitive To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
intransitive To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
intransitive, obsolete To copulate, to have sex. But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]

Rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old French en-bor.

Middle English en-

English en-

English gender

English engender

From en- + gender.

To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.