engender
verb
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A good paragraph about engender will engender understanding in the reader. Like its synonym generate, engender comes from the Latin verb generare, meaning “to generate” or “to beget,” and when the word was first used in the 14th century, engender meant “propagate” or “procreate.” That literal meaning having to do with creating offspring (which generate shared when it was adopted in the early 16th century) was soon joined by the “to cause to exist or develop; to produce” meaning most familiar to us today. Generare didn’t just engender generate and engender; regenerate, degenerate, and generation have the same Latin root. As you might suspect, the list of engender relatives does not end there. Generare comes from the Latin noun genus, meaning “origin” or “kind.” From this source we took our own word genus, plus gender, general, and generic, among other words.
Examples of engender in a Sentence
Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
Giving back Being back in London has also meant reconnecting with his community roots and embracing the charitable instincts engendered by his parents.
—Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Jones admitted the success new coach Mike Vrabel has been able to engender in his first season was a factor.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Being out in the world engenders those opportunities.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Engender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engender. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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