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That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENGENDER
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engender
 v.  cause; bring into existence; give rise to
Classic Sentence:
1  It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
2  She began to envy those pirouetters, to hunger for the hope and happiness which the fascination of the dance seemed to engender within them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
3  It could not be done, and the attempt to do it would inevitably engender suspicion.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
4  That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
5  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.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
6  The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7  Thus did the foetus of crime engendered by Brujon in La Force miscarry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
8  A new fear had been engendered in my mind by his narrative; or rather, his narrative had given form and purpose to the fear that was already there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIII
9  It is very possible that it had been in my mind a long time, and had gradually engendered my determination.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
10  Such speculations as it engendered within me I kept to myself, and those were faint enough.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
11  Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and of the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
14  And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith which gloomy probity engenders.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
Example Sentence:
1  To receive praise for real accomplishments would engender self-confidence in a child.