misengender

present singular third person misengenders · participle present misengendering · participle past misengendered · past misengendered

1. To engender wrongly or badly; to misbeget.

   […] themselves but the misengendered brood of the very spirit they deny.

   1940, Edwin Lewis, A Philosophy of the Christian Revelation, page 27

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   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.

   1856, Edward Howard, The Genesis; a Poem, page 130

   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.

   1970, Richard Church, A Harvest of Mushrooms: And Other Sporadic Essays, page 73

   The similarity between Ham's and Lot's story is unmistakable, particularly as it has to do with lineage and misengendering.

   1996, David Rosenberg, Genesis as it is Written, page 89

   Despite the nostalgia of Chinese culture displayed in the narrative, Mr Butterfly in the ruins of Chinese civilization indeed 'misengenders' China.

   2006, Wang I-yen, Yiyan Wang, Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, page 93