All 3 Uses of
engender
in
The Return of the Native
- A condition of healthy life so nearly resembling the torpor of death is a noticeable thing of its sort; to exhibit the inertness of the desert, and at the same time to be exercising powers akin to those of the meadow, and even of the forest, awakened in those who thought of it the attentiveness usually engendered by understatement and reserve.†
Chpt 1
- It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.†
Chpt 4
- ...to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them.
Chpt 4 *engender = bring about (cause)
Definition:
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(engender) cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)