engender

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

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

   erzeugen, hervorrufen, herbeiführen

   порожда́тьporoždátʹ

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

4. To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

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

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

1. It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

   ruНе седина порождает мудрость. — Hotaru

   deEs ist nicht das weiße Haar, das Weisheit hervorbringt. — GaryGaryGary

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2. Property is the right to use & abuse; it engenders despotism.

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3. Poverty often engenders crime.

   ruБедность часто порождает криминал. — megaton

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4. The conditions that lead to my parents' divorce were engendered by their obsessive attitude toward work.

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5. In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered.

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