Meanings of engender sympathy in English

Also, we hoped to engender sympathy for our cause.

Wouldn't this revelation engender sympathy for him?

I tell you that, not to engender sympathy, but because I feel the need to be totally honest.

It takes some doing to engender sympathy for golf's pampered millionaires but the USGA somehow managed to do exactly that.

Such an innately cocky player scarcely engenders sympathy, yet this tour is an exception.

Persecution engendered sympathy; sympathy ripened into conviction; and the more heretics were confined in the prisons, the more heresy flourished in the streets.