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
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- 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
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- 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.