See engender in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 129, column 1:",
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"text": "Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender \"Better Be Good to Me\" and \"I Must Love You,\" but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.",
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"text": "But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]",
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"text": "I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems,\n Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far,\n Me overtook his mother all diſmaid,\n And in embraces forcible and foule\n Ingendring with me, of that rape begot\n Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry\n Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]",
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-us-engender.ogg/En-us-engender.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-us-engender.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-engender.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-au-engender.ogg/En-au-engender.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-au-engender.ogg"
}
],
"word": "engender"
}
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