Definition of "engender" in Englisch

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

4. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

5. (obsolete, intransitive) To copulate, to have sex.

verb

1. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.