noun

• 1The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

  ‘I would never subject children to religious indoctrination’

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  • ‘he denounces political indoctrination in the classroom’
  • ‘They believe in separation of church and state, that religious indoctrination has no place in state schools.’
  • ‘The camps were quite intensive, involving as much as 14 hours a day of military training and political indoctrination.’
  • ‘This is straightforward ideological indoctrination of very young children.’
  • ‘This is an extraordinary experiment in mass indoctrination.’
  • ‘They practised relentless and insidious indoctrination.’
  • ‘He has overcome the indoctrination of his high school curriculum.’
  • ‘An unswerving determination to have no truck with tertiary institution insulated the artist from cultural indoctrination.’
  • ‘They force villagers to attend political and cultural indoctrination sessions.’
  • ‘Their life was one of constant propaganda and indoctrination.’
  • ‘How strong an effect does indoctrination really have?’

  1. 1.1 archaic 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.’