initiatee

plural initiatees

1. One who, or that which, is initiated.

   May usually enjoyed the camaraderie of the senior initiation process. She had been doing it for so long on the “initiator’s” side that she had no sense of the agony of the “initiatees.”

   2000, William McMillen, Sticks, Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, →ISBN, page 265

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   The following ceremony is gone into at the time of initiation. When there is more than one initiatee, all should stand in a row facing the Holy Scripture. One of the five reciters then holds the Amrita. Two of them stand on his right and left, the forth stands behind the initiatees to dress their hair from back to the front, if necessary. The fifth pours five handsful, chullas, of Amrita into the buk (palms of both hands joined together in a hollow forming a sort of cup) of the initiatees who drink it at once.

   1914, Khazan Singh, History and Philosophy of the Sikh Religion (in Two Parts), part II (Philosophy), Lahore: […] [T]he “Newal Kishore” Press, Ld., page 568

   Initiative is the ability possessed by one person to lay out work for another. The initiator is limited only by hours of wakefulness and the scope of his imagination. He organizes conventions, appoints committees, placing others like himself at their head. And then one of these initiators calls upon the initiatee with imperative command: “Do this,” and he doeth it.

   1915, Transactions of the Panama Pacific Dental Congress, volume 3, page 312

   Thus information processing tendencies on the part of the initiator lead him to direct his relationship with the initiatee along the lines in which he originally perceived the initiatee, lines which are often dictated by stereotypical information.

   1979, Ellen Berscheid, William Graziano, “The Initiation of Social Relationships and Interpersonal Attraction”, in Robert L. Burgess, Ted L. Huston, editors, Social Exchange in Developing Relationships, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part II (The Development Course of Close Relationships), page 52

   Furthermore, the initiatee is the one who takes the initiative, with gestures that again seem to fall short of girlish ignorance. The narrator’s judgment that the girl is “inexperienced but active” cannot quite restore coherency to her image, which remains contradictory. Hence, the act of initiation as such becomes subtly devalued.

   1995, Simone Vauthier, “Little Red Riding Hood Rides Again: A Reading of David Arnason’s “Girl and Wolf””, in Theo D’haen, Hans Bertens, editors, Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism (Postmodern Studies; 11), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 150

   Then we have the drama of breaking the pot. This is when an initiatee dies during the period of initiation. A pot is carried to the house of the initiatee and is allowed it to drop broken infront^([sic]) of the parents.

   2001, S. A. Abioye, Basic Text on West African Traditional Religion: For Higher Education, Immaculate-City Publishers, →ISBN, page 108

   Antonyms: initiator