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’
‘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?’
1.1archaic Teaching; instruction.
‘methods that were approved for indoctrination in divinity’
‘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.’
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