engender
/ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.63 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee."
- "Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…]."
- "ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered."
- "Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee."
- "Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things."
- "The performance on the Wharfedale Line is among the best on Northern's network, and Hornby says the posters, along with displays on station ticket machines and in local media, have engendered a sense of competition with managers on other lines, who want to see this type of marketing on their routes. This new in-your-face type marketing can now be seen across much of the North of England."
Etymology
From Middle English engendren, from Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: engendren, engendrer, ingenero
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ/
- British English: /ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/