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
Tyler Shepherd, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
RSNs and local stations are the prime movers behind the ticket sales that help engender a more lasting association between a team and its fans, and there are approximately 3.3 million seats to sell every summer.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, that spirit is engendered to some extent by a misunderstanding of the nature of the program and its financial operations.
—Doug Criscitello, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
But that position has engendered a world where a college athlete can legally switch schools, repeatedly, for more money and nothing can stop him or her without sparking antitrust litigation.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Engender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engender. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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