All 16 Uses
engender
in
Democracy In America, Volume 1
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- I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce.†
Chpt Intr.engenders = causes
- Henceforward every new discovery, every new want which it engendered, and every new desire which craved satisfaction, was a step towards the universal level.†
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- *i The Europeans produced no great impression when they landed upon the shores of North America; their presence engendered neither envy nor fear.†
Chpt 1
- Municipal freedom is not the fruit of human device; it is rarely created; but it is, as it were, secretly and spontaneously engendered in the midst of a semi-barbarous state of society.†
Chpt 5
- The inherent disadvantage of the very essence of Federal constitutions is that they engender parties in the bosom of the nation which present powerful obstacles to the free course of justice.†
Chpt 8engender = cause
- It is incontestably true that the love and the habits of republican government in the United States were engendered in the townships and in the provincial assemblies.†
Chpt 8engendered = caused
- But it is this same republican spirit, it is these manners and customs of a free people, which are engendered and nurtured in the different States, to be afterwards applied to the country at large.†
Chpt 8
- In this question, therefore, there is no medium between servitude and extreme license; in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.†
Chpt 11engenders = causes
- In New England the education and the liberties of the communities were engendered by the moral and religious principles of their founders.†
Chpt 13engendered = caused
- Freedom, on the contrary, engenders far more benefits than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.†
Chpt 13engenders = causes
- Moreover, all democratic communities are agitated by an ill-defined excitement and by a kind of feverish impatience, that engender a multitude of innovations, almost all of which are attended with expense.†
Chpt 13engender = cause
- *d I am persuaded that, if ever a despotic government is established in America, it will find it more difficult to surmount the habits which free institutions have engendered than to conquer the attachment of the citizens to freedom.†
Chpt 14engendered = caused
- It is not engendered by the laws, but the people learns how to promote it by the experience derived from legislation.†
Chpt 14
- Most of the European emigrants to the New World carry with them that wild love of independence and of change which our calamities are so apt to engender.†
Chpt 17engender = cause
- If human nature were different in America from what it is elsewhere; or if the social condition of the Americans engendered habits and opinions amongst them different from those which originate in the same social condition in the Old World, the American democracies would afford no means of predicting what may occur in other democracies.†
Chpt 17engendered = caused
- This state of things has engendered habits which would outlive itself; the American magistrate would retain his power, but he would cease to be responsible for the exercise of it; and it is impossible to say what bounds could then be set to tyranny.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(engender) cause -- usually a feeling (possibly a situation)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)