engender
engender
Definition
en·gen·der (en jen′dər, in-)
transitive verb
- Archaic to beget
- 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
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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