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Ingenerate vs Intenerate - What's the difference?

ingenerate | intenerate |

In transitive terms the difference between ingenerate and intenerate

is that ingenerate is to generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause while intenerate is to soften; tenderize.

As an adjective ingenerate

is innate, inborn.

ingenerate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Innate, inborn.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime / That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Those virtues were rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition, than true qualities ingenerate in his judgement or nature.

    Verb

    (ingenerat)
  • To generate or produce within; to beget or engender; to cause.
    • (Mede)
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul.
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    intenerate

    English

    Verb

    (intenerat)
  • To soften; tenderize.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • Fear intenerates the heart.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • So have I seen the little purls of a stream intenerate the stubborn pavement.

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