engender
to give rise to or cause a feeling or situation
Word origin: From Latin generare, to beget.
Engender in a sentence
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His arrogance engendered resentment among his colleagues.
Sustained transparency tends to engender trust between an institution and the public it serves.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.
Using “engender” well
Engender means to bring a feeling, condition, or situation into being. It is more formal than cause and is most often used of abstractions rather than physical objects.
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