misengender

misengender

English

Etymology

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.