misengender

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ engender.

Verb

misengender (third-person singular simple present misengenders, present participle misengendering, simple past and past participle misengendered)

  1. To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.
    • 1856, Edward Howard, The Genesis; a Poem, page 130:
      I might relate of numbers, and their names, And fabled origin unfold exact; Misformed, and misengendered wonders strange, Begot of fancy, and endowed with names From fabulous antiquity derived; Telling their deeds recited oft in vain.
    • 1940, Edwin Lewis, A Philosophy of the Christian Revelation, page 27:
      [] themselves but the misengendered brood of the very spirit they deny.
    • 1970, Richard Church, A Harvest of Mushrooms: And Other Sporadic Essays, page 73:
      Grigson sums up this almost utilitarian aspect of the state of detachment thus: Not visited enough, each poet knows His deadly fondness for his own mishaps, The way he fails to sort the full-time births From all his misengendered scraps.
    • 1996, David Rosenberg, Genesis as it is Written, page 89:
      The similarity between Ham's and Lot's story is unmistakable, particularly as it has to do with lineage and misengendering.
    • 2006, Wang I-yen, Yiyan Wang, Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, page 93:
      Despite the nostalgia of Chinese culture displayed in the narrative, Mr Butterfly in the ruins of Chinese civilization indeed 'misengenders' China.