English

Noun

engendrure ‎(plural engendrures)

1. (obsolete) The act of generation.

   • 1478 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale:

     So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, / I sey this, that they maked been for bothe, / This is to seye, for office, and for ese / Of engendrure,