engender
to make something happen
TRANSLATION
engender = erzeugen, verursachen, hervorrufen --- GOOGLE INDEX engender: approximately 4,300,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
What we really want is an environment where those of us developing Internet and social media services and applications deepen trust in a way that empowers and protects users and ENGENDERS confidence.
(International Business Times)
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that ENGENDERED religion.
(Albert Einstein)
(International Business Times)
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that ENGENDERED religion.
(Albert Einstein)
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engender
verb
- cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Engender is one of several related words that can be traced back to the Latin "ingenerare," meaning to implant or produce (in = in + generare = beget, create). The original sense was often in the context of creating something physical. As always, we can count on Shakespeare to illustrate how certain words were (and often still are) used:
In King Henry VI, Clarence says to King Henry IV:
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
And blow it to the source from whence it came:
The very beams will dry those vapours up,
For every cloud engenders not a storm.
Modern usage of engender meanwhile has more to do with causing feelings to occur or bringing about certain situations or conditions.
Other words that have a similar etymological root include:
- engineer (by way of the Old French engigneor)
- engine (by way of the Old French engine - skill, cleverness - and Latin ingenium, meaning inborn qualities, talent)
- generate/generation (from the Old French generacion and directly from Latin generatio and further from the Latin genus)
- ingenious (by way of the Middle French ingénieux - clever - and Latin ingeniosus)
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SYNONYMS
beget, cause, make happen, produce, induce, create, breed, give rise to, precipitate, spawn, bring about, bring forth, instigate, generate
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The latest sales figures engendered a sense of confidence in the company."
verb
- cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Engender is one of several related words that can be traced back to the Latin "ingenerare," meaning to implant or produce (in = in + generare = beget, create). The original sense was often in the context of creating something physical. As always, we can count on Shakespeare to illustrate how certain words were (and often still are) used:
In King Henry VI, Clarence says to King Henry IV:
A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
And blow it to the source from whence it came:
The very beams will dry those vapours up,
For every cloud engenders not a storm.
Modern usage of engender meanwhile has more to do with causing feelings to occur or bringing about certain situations or conditions.
Other words that have a similar etymological root include:
- engineer (by way of the Old French engigneor)
- engine (by way of the Old French engine - skill, cleverness - and Latin ingenium, meaning inborn qualities, talent)
- generate/generation (from the Old French generacion and directly from Latin generatio and further from the Latin genus)
- ingenious (by way of the Middle French ingénieux - clever - and Latin ingeniosus)
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SYNONYMS
beget, cause, make happen, produce, induce, create, breed, give rise to, precipitate, spawn, bring about, bring forth, instigate, generate
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The latest sales figures engendered a sense of confidence in the company."
