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What does engender mean?

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Verb
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman). [14th–19th c.]
  2. (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). [from 14th c.]
  3. (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. [from 14th c.]
  4. (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
Verb
  1. (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. [from 20th c.]
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