indoctrinise

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A form of indoctrinize — To indoctrinate.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbindoctrinise (third-person singular simple present indoctrinises, present participle indoctrinising, simple past and past participle indoctrinised)

present singular third person indoctrinises · participle present indoctrinising · participle past indoctrinised · past indoctrinised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of indoctrinize.

    They have successfully indoctrinised them to consider me as the only person in this country deserving to rule;

    1968, A. A. Khan, The Despot, page 40
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    The Brahmins did not worry about their conversion as they indoctrinised the country through their powerful media, press, that the buddhism was not an alien religion but rather a part of Hinduism.

    1989, Siddhārtha, page 50

    I particularly use the word "content" with life in the diaspora because the image with which we are indoctrinised is that life in the diaspora cannot be "content".

    1995, Seamus Finnegan, James Joyce and the Israelites, page 59

    Being indoctrinised into a womanhood of putting up with things and men that would not listen to a woman .....was not a womanhood at all ...... it had merely forced me to accept a man with a Brain Injury and make a living at the same time.

    2015, Bernadette M. Winslow, Maddison – a Close Change

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