All 4 Uses of
engender
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
- God they blasphemed and their progenitors, The human race, the place, the time, the seed Of their engendering and of their birth!†
Canto 1.1-11 *
- By the other mode, forgotten is that love Which Nature makes, and what is after added, From which there is a special faith engendered.†
Canto 1.1-11
- "The new inhabitants and the sudden gains, Pride and extravagance have in thee engendered, Florence, so that thou weep'st thereat already!"†
Canto 1.12-22
- While both of them the exhalation veils With a new colour, and engenders hair On one of them and depilates the other, The one uprose and down the other fell, Though turning not away their impious lamps, Underneath which each one his muzzle changed.†
Canto 1.23-34
Definition:
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(engender) cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)