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  • envy engenders spite [ill will]  (source)
    engenders = gives rise to
  • And the only emotion this thought engendered was tired relief.  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn't hard to understand.  (source)
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  • I knew that the scent of my blood ... caused him actual pain from the burning thirst it engendered.  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • He was crying quietly, and it might have been enough to engender sympathy had he not been wearing a T-shirt splattered with the blood of other students.  (source)
    engender = cause
  • sound that engenders the explosion  (source)
    engenders = causes
  • Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice  (source)
    Engendering = causing
  • Six colts were thus engender'd: four of these In his own stalls he rear'd; the other two Gave to AEneas, fear-inspiring chief: These could we win, our praise were great indeed.†  (source)
  • That which dies not, And that which can die, are but each the beam Of that idea, which our Soverign Sire Engendereth loving; for that lively light, Which passeth from his brightness; not disjoin'd From him, nor from his love triune with them, Doth, through his bounty, congregate itself, Mirror'd, as 't were in new existences, Itself unalterable and ever one.†  (source)
    Engendereth = causes
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She engendereth" in older English, today we say "She engenders."
  • ...for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer.  (source)
    engendered = caused
  • And surely it must engender some bitterness in you, Starkweather, to know that they so easily left this fate to you…  (source)
    engender = cause
  • I hope, someday, that I will be surrounded by so much love, so much loyalty and patience, as that boy engenders.  (source)
    engenders = causes (tends to create around him)
  • The crowds of novices being escorted to the top for a fee, huffed Sir Edmund, were engendering disrespect for the mountain.  (source)
    engendering = causing
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