engendered

Having a strong association with gender; gendered.

Adjective

  1. Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
    • The professor's study is perhaps the novel's most engendered space, yet it is in a way different from its other settings. - 1999, John P. Anders, Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary...
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2007, Marie-Louise Nosch,...
  2. Having been produced or begotten.
    • 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. - 1882 March, J. Risdon Bennett, “Jenner and his Successors”,...
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2019, Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the...

Forms

more engendered most engendered

Derived

engendered reliance unengendered

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of engender