1The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
I would never subject children to religious indoctrination
he denounces political indoctrination in the classroom
Example sentencesExamples
Their life was one of constant propaganda and indoctrination.
The camps were quite intensive, involving as much as 14 hours a day of military training and political indoctrination.
An unswerving determination to have no truck with tertiary institution insulated the artist from cultural indoctrination.
This is an extraordinary experiment in mass indoctrination.
How strong an effect does indoctrination really have?
This is straightforward ideological indoctrination of very young children.
He has overcome the indoctrination of his high school curriculum.
They believe in separation of church and state, that religious indoctrination has no place in state schools.
They force villagers to attend political and cultural indoctrination sessions.
They practised relentless and insidious indoctrination.
1.1archaic Teaching; instruction.
methods that were approved for indoctrination in divinity
Example sentencesExamples
He feared the danger of excitement replacing understanding, and the awakening of feelings supplanting the indoctrination of the understanding and the cultivation of the heart.
Definition of indoctrination in US English:
indoctrination
nouninˌdäktrəˈnāSHən
1The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
I would never subject children to religious indoctrination
he denounces political indoctrination in the classroom
Example sentencesExamples
They believe in separation of church and state, that religious indoctrination has no place in state schools.
How strong an effect does indoctrination really have?
They force villagers to attend political and cultural indoctrination sessions.
Their life was one of constant propaganda and indoctrination.
This is an extraordinary experiment in mass indoctrination.
He has overcome the indoctrination of his high school curriculum.
They practised relentless and insidious indoctrination.
An unswerving determination to have no truck with tertiary institution insulated the artist from cultural indoctrination.
This is straightforward ideological indoctrination of very young children.
The camps were quite intensive, involving as much as 14 hours a day of military training and political indoctrination.
1.1archaic Teaching; instruction.
methods that were approved for indoctrination in divinity
Example sentencesExamples
He feared the danger of excitement replacing understanding, and the awakening of feelings supplanting the indoctrination of the understanding and the cultivation of the heart.