The difference between Beget and Engender
When used as verbs, beget means to father, whereas engender means to beget (of a man).
check bellow for the other definitions of Beget and Engender
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Beget as a verb:
To father; to sire; to produce (a child).
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Beget as a verb:
To cause; to produce.
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Beget as a verb (UK, _, dialectal):
To happen to; befall.
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Beget as a verb:
To bring forth.
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Engender as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
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Engender as a verb (transitive):
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
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Engender as a verb (transitive):
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
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Engender as a verb (intransitive):
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
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Engender as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To copulate, to have sex.
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Engender as a verb (critical theory):
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.