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单词 engenderer
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engenderern.

Brit. /ᵻnˈdʒɛnd(ə)rə/, /ɛnˈdʒɛnd(ə)rə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈdʒɛnd(ə)rər/, /ɛnˈdʒɛnd(ə)rər/
Forms:

α. Middle English engendreer, 1500s–1600s engendrer, 1500s–1600s ingenderer, 1500s– engenderer.

β. Middle English engenderour, Middle English engendrour, Middle English engendrure.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: engender v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < engender v. + -er suffix1.Compare Old French engendreor parent (12th cent.; Middle French engendreur ), and also Old Occitan engenraire , engenrador , Catalan engendrador (14th cent.), Spanish engendrador (13th cent.). With the β. forms compare -our suffix. For a possible earlier example of the word see quot. c13901 at engendrure n. 2.
That which causes, produces, or gives rise to something; (in early use) spec. a procreator, a parent, an ancestor.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > that which produces
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c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 137 (MED) Heyl chosen chastite þe ȝoke, engendreer of vre gentrie.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 99 (MED) And yf it fall, by auenture, þat þe engenderours of þe engendre lere hym any craft.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. v. 67 One is an ingenderer and another is ingendred; among men, a father and a sonne.
1596 L. Andrewes Serm. II. 94 These [sc. the prophets] also he strove to forget, and as ingenderers of melancholy to remove them far away.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. v. 45 Ease and idlenesse, the engendrers of all manner of crudities.
1797 Quiz No. 30. 200 Some engenderer of conspiracies and treasons.
1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 53 The hospital, the gas-factory, the knacker's yard, the slaughterhouse, and other still more disgusting engenderers of filth, combine to swell the tide of pollution.
1942 G. D. H. Cole Europe, Russia & Future i. 16 War is a great solvent of old animosities, a great engenderer of new situations leading to new needs.
2015 Guardian (Lagos) (Nexis) 18 Jan. The very act of concentrating power in one hand at the centre is of itself..an engenderer of corruption.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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