单词 | inculcation |
释义 | inculcationn. The action of impressing on the mind by forcible admonition or frequent repetition; the emphatic or persistent teaching of something. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > [noun] > inculcating inculcation1553 inculcating1593 brainwashing1950 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 94 I wil not trouble the reader with double inculcation, and twyse tellyng of one tale. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 254 He euermore laboreth with often inculcations, to infixe this most firmely in his mind. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 151. ⁋8 The days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received. 1805 J. Foster Ess. i. ii. 17 The constant inculcation of truth. 1844 A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold I. iv. 186 His works were not merely the inculcations of particular truths, but the expression of his whole mind. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxxiii. 588 Action is more powerful than speech in the inculcation of religion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1553 |
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