0 present participle of engender
1 to make people have a particular feeling or make a situation start to exist:
Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy.
The vice-president's speech did not engender confidence in his judgment.
The responsibility and power for engendering and maintaining such a commitment, in turn, rests with institutions of scientific leadership and influence.
Internationally and locally, race (and/or ethnic difference) and gender remain crucial aspects of conflicts engendered by, or engendering, migration.
It is for such reasons that these bacterial gene products have long been considered attractive candidates for engendering an autoimmune response in the infected host.
An optimistic projection about the future on the other hand provides multiple possibilities for engendering more topic-related talk.
Similar strategies of engendering artefacts also featured in earlier studies when identifying women was the main goal.
Despite the challenge, early breakthroughs are engendering a great deal of excitement about the potential benefits of a multilevel, multidisciplinary approach to resilience in development.
Engendering space is equivalent to adopting a position or to making a movement.
The latter has had a double effect of both maintaining the status quo and engendering social change.