engender

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). (defdate, 14th-19th c.) .
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  4. Verb.  (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex. (defdate, 15th-19th c.) .
  5. Verb.  (context, critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. (defdate, from 20th c.) .

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