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engendered

[en-jen-der]

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verb (used with object)

to produce, cause, or give rise to: Hatred engenders violence.

to beget; procreate.

verb (used without object)

to be produced or caused; come into existence: Conditions for a war were engendering in Europe.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Old French engendrer < Latin ingenerāre, equivalent to in- en-¹ + generāre to beget; see generate

Related forms

en·gen·der·er, noun

en·gen·der·ment, noun

un·en·gen·dered, adjective

Synonyms
1. beget, occasion, excite, stir up. 1, 2. create, generate, breed.

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Example Sentences

But the project has also engendered deeply ambivalent feelings in many quarters.

Free trade would expose the big inefficiencies engendered by his statist economic policy.

Prisons often engendered conditions more horrible than those on the battlefield.

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But the project has also engendered deeply ambivalent feelings in many quarters.

Free trade would expose the big inefficiencies engendered by his statist economic policy.

Prisons often engendered conditions more horrible than those on the battlefield.

We think the discussion of nuclear war engendered by nuclear winter research was a large part of that.

Stampp's writings about the period turned accepted wisdom inside out and engendered seismic shifts in the scholarship.

Every move toward equal opportunity has engendered the same opposition, usually based on pseudo-biology.

All this uncertainty has engendered two competing political narratives.

Some people are pleased with the contents of the hacked emails and the controversy they have engendered.

Most of the feelings it had engendered and fostered had been unarticulated and unnoticed.

The message they have engendered is don't trust people in authority, especially the police.

Capitalism has always engendered crises, and always will.

The literature on engendered development is full of pieties about the need to include both men and.

Interesting that this post engendered comments that had to be deleted.

If you have, you probably engendered some quizzical, even suspicious looks.

Diving with sharks, and especially feeding them, has engendered controversy over the past several years.

Prohibition engendered black market profits are obscenely huge.

Prosecutors said they engendered fear at construction sites.

The summit had engendered high hopes for some kind of breakthrough.

In this case, the truth must almost certainly have been stranger than the determinedly simple movie it has engendered.

The additional annoyance engendered by our celebration is insignificant.

Haitians could benefit from outsiders who help them rebuild the ad hoc relationships that have engendered trust and cooperation.

The global revival of faith has engendered religious conflict as well as good works:.

This, in turn, has engendered ever more blowback and erosion of our civil liberties.

As such, it is a sweeping, ambitious version of the comic-book storytelling that engendered it.

If the woman lay on her right side she would have a boy because boys are engendered on the right side of the womb.

Teller generated hot debate for more than a half century, even as he engendered many features of the modern world.

The final selection came after a three-month search that engendered some controversy within the community about a lack of input.

Increasingly discontent about the stagnation engendered by inhabiting a cramped, miserable apartment, she grabbed the opportunity.

I've never seen a trade issue or any issue that has engendered as much interest on the part of the public as this one.

Credit has eased a bit, and there was a little optimism engendered by the temporary tax credit for home buyers.

Naturally, any play that engendered that sort of reaction had to be a hit.

It also engendered a sense of impunity that helped to foster the excessive risk-taking so prevalent in the mortgage mess.

Klaus's rhetoric on other issues often engendered a fair slice of public support.

The exercise engendered an un-self-conscious communal hush.

There is a pungent smell, the kind engendered by years of stale popcorn and no windows.

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Word Origin & History

engender

early 14c., from O.Fr. engendrer, from L. ingenerare, from in- "in" + generare "beget, create" (see generation). Related: Engendered; engendering.

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"The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ..."

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