Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ingenerate

/ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-gener-ate
IPA: /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Innate, inborn.

Archaic

verb

To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.

Transitive verb

adj

Not generated, self-existent.

Example Sentences

"Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime."
"Those virtues were […]rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature."
"a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon ingenerate or encrease this disposition of lowlinee and abjection"
"those noble habits that upon that account are ingenerated in the Soul, as Religion, Gratitude, Obedience, and Tranquillity of Mind"
"But neither is one time generated in another; for if the preſent be generated in the future, the future muſt be present; and if in the paſt, the paſt. The ſame may be ſaid of other times; therefore one time is not generated in another. Now if time be neither generated in itſelf, nor one time in another, it is not generate at all. But that it is not ingenerate, we ſhewed also. Therefore ſeeing it is neither generate nor ingenerate, it is not at all; for every Beeing muſt either be generate or ingenerate."
"The first Synod of Sirmium anathematises those who […] identify the Holy Ghost with the Ingenerate God."

Etymology

First attested in 1528; borrowed from Latin ingenerātus, perfect passive participle of ingenerō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Origin

First known use: First attested in 1528

Usage

Inflected Forms

more ingenerate (comparative) most ingenerate (superlative) ingenerates (present, singular) ingenerating (participle, present) ingenerated (participle, past) ingenerated (past)

Antonyms

generate

Questions

How do you pronounce ingenerate?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪnˈdʒɛnəɹət/.
What does ingenerate mean?: Innate, inborn.
Where does ingenerate come from?: First known use: First attested in 1528.

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