engender

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To beget (of a man)

   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.
2. 2

   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[…].
3. 3

   To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.)

   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.
   • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
   • Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.
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   1. 4

      To assume form

      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.
   2. 5

      To copulate, to have sex.

   3. 6

      To endow with 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.
      • As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.
      • I focus on […] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.

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