Engender

Quick meaning: Engender is a verb meaning (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

Meaning

(transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
2. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
3. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.

Example Sentences

O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.

ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.

Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].

Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.

Word Forms

• engenders
• engendering
• engendered
• engendre

Synonyms for engender

Depending on context, synonyms include father, mother, sire, birth, spawn, assemble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beget, breed, spawn, mother, father, generate.

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