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Engender is a related term of bring_up.


As verbs the difference between engender and bring_up

is that engender is (obsolete|transitive) to beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman) or engender can be (critical theory) to endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender while bring_up is .

engender

English

Alternative forms

* engendre

Etymology 1

From (etyl) engendrer, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , Act V:
  • O Error soone conceyu'd, / Thou neuer com'st vnto a happy byrth, / But kil'st the Mother that engendred thee.
  • To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
  • * 1891 , (Henry James), "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere , p.60:
  • Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him.
  • To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
  • * , II.11:
  • Me thinks vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations unto goodnesse, which in us are ingendered .
  • * 1928 , "New Plays in Manhattan", Time , 8 Oct.:
  • 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.
  • * 2009 , Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian , 21 Dec.:
  • 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.
  • To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  • * Dryden
  • Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
  • (obsolete) To copulate, to have sex.
  • * 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), Leviathan :
  • But that the bodies of the reprobate, who make the kingdom of Satan, shall also be glorious or spiritual bodies, or that they shall be as the angels of God, neither eating, drinking, nor engendering .
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book II:
  • I fled, but he pursu'd (though more, it seems, / Inflam'd with lust then rage) and swifter far, / Me overtook his mother all dismaid, / And in embraces forcible and foule / Ingendring with me, of that rape begot / These yelling Monsters.
    Synonyms
    * (to bring into existence) beget, conjure, create, produce, make, craft, manufacture, invent, assemble, generate

    Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
  • * 1992 , Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions , p. 2:
  • As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered' (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they ' engender their consumers.
  • * 1996 , Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth , p. xviii:
  • I focus on [...] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.

    bring_up

    English

    Verb

  • * 1953 , United States Supreme Court, John Den ''ex dem.'' Archibald Russell ''v.'' The Association of the Jersey Company , reprinted in the (United States Reports), volume 56, page 426:
  • This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.
  • To mention.
  • To raise (children).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To uncover, to bring from obscurity.
  • To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
  • To vomit.
  • To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
  • * 1934 , (Rex Stout), , 1992 (w) edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 91:
  • "Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—"
    I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up :
    "That's all, Miss Barstow."
  • * 1999 , Alice Borchardt, Night of the Wolf , (w), ISBN 0345423631, page 260 [http://google.com/books?id=tG4tiCvmHJwC&pg=PA260&dq=brought-him-up]:
  • "No," Maeniel shouted, "No!" trying to distract the man, and lunged toward him. The chain on his ankle brought him up short and he fell on his face.