Both Uses of
engender
in
Dracula
- Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.†
p. 14.9engendered = caused
- the dusty nature of the job, and the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.
p. 242.9 *
Definition:
cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)