delay vs engender

delay

verb
  • To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. 

  • To put off until a later time; to defer. 

noun
  • A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. 

  • An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay. 

  • Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”) 

  • An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment. 

engender

verb
  • To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create. 

  • To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. 

  • To give existence to, to produce (living creatures). 

  • To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender. 

How often have the words delay and engender occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )