engendered

English

Adjective

engendered (comparative more engendered, superlative most engendered)

Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
- 1999, John P. Anders, Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition, page 106:
  The professor's study is perhaps the novel's most engendered space, yet it is in a way different from its other settings.
- 2006, Jeanne E. Abrams, Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail, page 153:
  In her study of women lawyers in America, historian Virginia Drachman has maintained that "more than any other profession women sought to enter in the nineteenth century, law was the most engendered and closed to women.”
- 2007, Marie-Louise Nosch, C. Gillis, Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society:
  To the ancient Romans, wool work obviously represented a very engendered issue and on an ideological level it may be seen as representing a polarization of male and female spheres in society.
Having been produced or begotten.
- 1882 March, J. Risdon Bennett, “Jenner and his Successors”, in Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, volume 35, number 3, page 402:
  After a longer period, of six or eight months, the engendered disease was so mild that all the animals speedily recovered and regained health and strength.
- 1911, Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals, The Texas Criminal Reports, page 552:
  Without going into the details of these matters, the engendered feelings seemed to have culminated in the fact that appellant claimed that there had been a settlement between them, and deceased owed him $ 200, which was admitted by the deceased .
- 2019, Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, page 67:
  To place oneself in the position of the engendered being, and to describe birth, rather than fecundity, brings to the surface another meaning of mortality.

Derived terms

Verb

engendered

simple past and past participle of engender