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.
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Miles Socha, WWD, 15 June 2024
Southern politics was and is replete with colorful characters, hucksters, showmen and demagogues who managed both to shock and engender fierce loyalty among their followers.
—David Cason, The Conversation, 16 May 2024
Rulings of those sorts might well engender the greatest consolidation of presidential power since the New Deal.
—Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
As Vox has previously reported in the past, changes to Section 230 might engender an overcorrection: the censorship of millions of social media users who aren’t engaging in hate speech.
—Tiffany Ng, Vox, 9 May 2024
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“Engender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/engender. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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