Engender vs Regender - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between engender and regender

is that engender is to beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman) while regender is to gender anew (and differently).

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

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.

regender

English

Verb

(en verb)

To gender anew (and differently).

# To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.

#* 1998 , Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me (ISBN 0231096437), page 170:

Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes. Jenny could spend a lifetime attempting to refute the cultural illogic that leaves her, as an Asian-American woman,

# To cause (a thing or subject) to be gendered in a new or different way; to be associated with a new gender or with new genders.

#* 1995 , L. H. Parker, L. Rennie, B. Fraser, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow (ISBN 0792335821), page 74:

It is at moments like this that we can recognise the enormity of the task to redress gender issues in mathematics and science in schools, (i.e., to ‘regender ’ them). We have seen that science itself embodies its own deep gender structures

#* 2002 , Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (ISBN 0521785537), page 144:

The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors.

#*{{quote-news, 2009, January 21, Ginia Bellafante, For TV’s Newest Crime Fighter, the Lips May Lie, but the Face Tells the Truth, New York Times citation

, passage=And I’m not sure whether the regendering is a democratizing net positive for feminism or whether we should take offense that women’s intuition translates somewhere along the spectrum of cute while its male counterpart is meant to suggest the power of a mind brilliantly deducing.}}