What's the difference between beget and engender?

Beget


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
  • (v. t.) To get (with child.)
  • (v. t.) To produce as an effect; to cause to exist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
  • (2) I believe in due process of law; I know violence begets violence.
  • (3) The temporal progression of CHF from a mild to a severe state need not be a sign of progressive pathology of heart muscle, but rather a result of feedback circuits where failure begets failure and leads to progressive cardiac enlargement, progressive hypervolemia, and peripheral edema.
  • (4) Alexander said she thinks piracy is necessary because of country content restrictions, and that while the wealth piracy begets for the pirates isn’t right, the freedom of access to content is.
  • (5) As long as universities favour privately educated applicants, money will beget money.
  • (6) This reluctance flows from not only from our humanitarian ideals but from our experience that violence usually begets violence.
  • (7) It is proposed that this test should be made generally available in Southeast Asia and Southern China, in order to identify couples who are at risk of begetting fetuses afflicted with homozygous alpha-thalassemia.
  • (8) Knowledge begets increased output and liberates resources for further investment.
  • (9) Solomon Mercado (@M3rcMyWords) But yeah Max Kellerman better never plan a visit to the Philippines.... May 3, 2015 Leizl de los Reyes (@leizlgd) @MaxKellerman_ Respect begets respect.
  • (10) This begets responsibility – and no country is more aware of this than the Federal Republic.
  • (11) However, the only alternative is the terrible dystopia unfolding before our eyes as the EU disintegrates; David Cameron celebrates the potential exclusion of some eastern Europeans from social security benefits; ambition is renationalised; xenophobia surges; and newer and taller fences are built begetting insecurity in the name of … security.
  • (12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
  • (13) A male and female left to their own devices for one year – the average lifespan of a city rat – can beget 15,000 descendants.
  • (14) And God, the all-powerful creator, capable of moving mountains and of begetting a universe with all the laws of physics, couldn't find a better way to lift the burden of sin than a blood sacrifice.
  • (15) Social media, including Facebook, has been shown to have contagious effects on mood and behaviour, with negative comments begetting negative feelings and further comments even if they are not directed towards the reader.
  • (16) It was concluded that involuntary sterilization of mentally incompetent persons can be deemed legally acceptable if the person is incapable of valid consent; has a big possibility of begetting genetically defective offspring; and is permanently incapable of being a competent parent.
  • (17) The Hebrew word for "know" (yada') means both to know and to beget.
  • (18) The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan illustrates, although in different circumstances, how the overthrow of a tyrant can beget a long-running insurgency or civil war.
  • (19) As well as huge insecurity, disorganised capitalism begets disorganised politics: as Labour and the Tories find their respective support bases pushed down, so a Great Beyond opens, where seemingly anything can happen, from the shortlived rise of the BNP to the even briefer high summer of Cleggmania .
  • (20) They knew that violence mostly escalates and begets more violence.

Engender


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
  • (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.
  • (v. i.) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
  • (v. i.) To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, engenders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In observing more than 300 clinical interviews, we have seen a high frequency of physician-engendered defects.
  • (2) We have shown that heme, a hydrophobic iron chelate, is rapidly incorporated into endothelial cells where, after as little as 1 h, it markedly aggravates cytotoxicity engendered by polymorphonuclear leukocyte oxidants or hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).
  • (3) Previous data have shown that the neurotoxicity engendered by these agents can also be prevented by selective NMDA antagonists.
  • (4) The negative slope of the linear regression lines relating the effects of morphine to control rates of responding engendered under the FI schedule was decreased when morphine was combined with naloxone, but not with d-amphetamine.
  • (5) The author discusses the relationship between patient care and consulting and the rapport that contact between college health service psychiatrists and other college personnel can engender.
  • (6) However, challenges of 10(5) and 10(6) tumor cells overcame immune status engendered by preimmunization with M component.
  • (7) Since successful orthodontic treatment depends upon patient cooperation, it would be useful to assess variables associated with cooperation so that the orthodontist might engender cooperation based on that understanding.
  • (8) The symbolic-interactionist and Scottish moralist orientations both hold that society alone engenders uniquely human qualities, self-arises through sympathetic interaction, and mind and self reconstruct their environments.
  • (9) Carbachol injection engendered the opposite result.
  • (10) They improve cardiac function by decreasing postload, by preventing left ventricular hypertrophy and by decreasing myocardial excitability which engenders dysrhythmias.
  • (11) Differentiating between the effect of primary neurological injury and secondary psychosocial problems is often difficult for clinicians and engenders controversy.
  • (12) Men with nothing but good to say about a player whose career had yielded great honour and engendered enormous affection, disrupted by what seem now, in the light of the reports on Sunday that Speed had killed himself, to be only the most insignificant of disappointments.
  • (13) This paper discusses religious meanings of the hijra role, as well as the ways in which individuals and the community deal with the conflicts engendered by their sexual activity.
  • (14) The fact that the reorganization was successful and the outcomes remarkably similar to model predictions has engendered confidence in the role of modeling in the planning process.
  • (15) She is confronted with a similar situation: the refugee crisis has handed her an opportunity to stamp once and for all a visible and lasting mark on German and international politics – while engendering a potentially lethal storm at the home front.
  • (16) But the predicament is partly engendered by prosperity, too.
  • (17) This is the first demonstration of a metabolic reversal of the cholesterol synthesis inhibition engendered by lovastatin.
  • (18) Furthermore, compared to low Ho men, high Ho men blamed their wives more for their usual disagreements on the high conflict topic and saw their disagreement-engendering behavior as more intentional.
  • (19) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
  • (20) Lack of cell wall confers plasticity and may engender the intimate association of mycoplasma and host cell that has been noted.