All 9 Uses of
engender
in
Les Miserables
- That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.†
Chpt 1.1
- Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,— we are not speaking of…†
Chpt 2.1
- And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.†
Chpt 3.4
- This sou piece was one of those marvels of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than instruments of escape.†
Chpt 3.8
- The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action.†
Chpt 4.1
- Thus did the foetus of crime engendered by Brujon in La Force miscarry.†
Chpt 4.2
- It engenders a whole world, la pegre, for which read theft, and a hell, la pegrenne, for which read hunger.†
Chpt 4.7
- Suffering engenders wrath;
Chpt 4.7 *engenders = causes (brings about)
- Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith which gloomy probity engenders.†
Chpt 5.4
Definition:
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(engender) cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)