inculcate
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually followed by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.
Origin of inculcate
1Other words for inculcate
Other words from inculcate
- in·cul·ca·tion, noun
- in·cul·ca·tive [in-kuhl-kuh-tiv], /ɪnˈkʌl kə tɪv/, in·cul·ca·to·ry, adjective
- in·cul·ca·tor, noun
Words that may be confused with inculcate
- inculcate , indoctrinate
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How to use inculcate in a sentence
All is aimed at inculcating young minds with the ISIS ideology.
Darkness at Noon Prayers: Inside the Islamic Police State | Jamie Dettmer | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome thought him too merciful, and one of his followers asked Burghley to give him a private hint inculcating severity.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3) | Richard BagwellThen she felt annoyed with her own annoyance: it was unjust to blame the girl, when she herself had been inculcating caution.
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa MolesworthThere is extant a British Triad inculcating the three maxims for good health as “cheerfulness, temperance, and early rising”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyIn the first place, the present state of society testifies to a neglect somewhere of inculcating habits of rectitude.
Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853 | Christopher C. Andrews
This ballad displays all the vivacity and humor of light comedy, though we miss the virtue-inculcating moral at the close.
British Dictionary definitions for inculcate
/ (ˈɪnkʌlˌkeɪt, ɪnˈkʌlkeɪt) /
(tr) to instil by forceful or insistent repetition
Origin of inculcate
1Derived forms of inculcate
- inculcation, noun
- inculcator, noun
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