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engender Definition

en·gen·der (en jendər, in-)

transitive verb

  1. Archaic to beget
  2. to bring into being; bring about; cause; produce pity engendered love

Etymology: ME engendren < OFr engendrer < L ingenerare, to beget < in-, in + generare: see generate

intransitive verb

Obsolete to be produced; originate

engender Synonyms

engender

v.

induce, incite, cause; see cause 2, produce 1, 2.

engender Usage Examples

Object

  • loyalty: Both achieved great academic distinction and engendered deep loyalty in their students.
  • feeling: These are the feelings engendered with the moving of the Sunday Eucharist from the Choir to the nave.
  • hatred: Nothing has made more for peace and love than religion; nothing has engendered fiercer hatred than religion.
  • sympathy: Tho he failed to engender enough sympathy for Phillip Gellburg, a mistake which cannot be blamed on the script.
  • optimism: The appointment of Rogge as president would engender optimism that stronger, more enlightened policies could soon emerge in the Olympic movement.
  • pride: It is the sort of building that has often engendered great pride in the people who use it.

Subject

  • process: So it would have been engendered simply by the evolutionary process.
  • event: So much excitement was engendered by the event that it was decided to put the case studies together as a book.
  • input: These are considered in the context of the distributed brain activity that is engendered by visual input.
  • fact: The controversy is engendered purely by the fact that the statistics do not point the way that some would *want* them to point.

Preposition: by

  • process: So it would have been engendered simply by the evolutionary process.
  • event: So much excitement was engendered by the event that it was decided to put the case studies together as a book.
  • input: These are considered in the context of the distributed brain activity that is engendered by visual input.

Modifying Another Word

  • inevitably: On the contrary, the aspiration of the party to preserve its proletarian character must inevitably engender resistance to bureaucratism.
  • thus: What a change in perspective, in attitude toward one s self, is thus engendered!
  • necessarily: The question is: Does cloning necessarily engender such confusion?
  • often: It is the sort of building that has often engendered great pride in the people who use it.
  • also: This can also engender a feeling of belonging, even pride in being part of the project team.
  • always: Yet, as he has discovered his experience does not always engender respect; " everybody now is an expert.

Preposition: in

  • people: But the most exciting thing about the event was the sense of agency engendered in the people who took part.

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