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Grammar : Verb
Spell : en-jen-der
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʒɛn dər

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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