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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : en-jen-der |
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʒɛn dər |
Definition of engendered
Origin :- early 14c., "beget, procreate," from Old French engendrer (12c.) "engender, beget, bear; cause, bring about," from Latin ingenerare "to implant, engender, produce," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + generare "beget, create" (see generation). Meaning "cause, produce" is mid-14c. Related: Engendered; engendering.
- verb cause to happen; cause an action
- She engendered them in her own fruitful breast, and her "copy is eterne."
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- Ay, and in the enjoyment of external beauty a sort of surfeit is engendered.
- Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
- The enthusiasm which this plan has engendered is very great.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- And was it he that should reproach her for the very faults his own intimacy had engendered?
- Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
- That passion once engendered in the heart, no room remains for any other.
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- His run of success had engendered within him a desire for conversation.
- Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
- This is my aunt; such malice can be engendered nowhere else.
- Extract from : « The Comedies of William Congreve » by William Congreve
- All the passions which are engendered by cupidity were seething in the people's hearts.
- Extract from : « Celebrated Travels and Travellers » by Jules Verne
- I had no conception of the bitterness that the lawsuit had engendered.
- Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
- There was engendered within him feelings of revenge of the most acrid nature.
- Extract from : « The Loyalist » by James Francis Barrett
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