indoctrinise

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

  1. Alternative form of indoctrinize
    • 1968, A. A. Khan, The Despot, page 40:
      They have successfully indoctrinised them to consider me as the only person in this country deserving to rule;
    • 1989, Siddhārtha, page 50:
      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.
    • 1995, Seamus Finnegan, James Joyce and the Israelites, page 59:
      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".
    • 2015, Bernadette M. Winslow, Maddison – a Close Change:
      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.

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