All 3 Uses of
engender
in
Jane Eyre
- What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days!†
Chpt 4 *
- Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram's.†
Chpt 18
- Still, I liked her almost as I liked my pupil Adele; except that, for a child whom we have watched over and taught, a closer affection is engendered than we can give an equally attractive adult acquaintance.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(engender) cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)