the proper and adequate indoctrination of a newly received prisoner is one of the most important points of the rehabilitation program—W. H. Maglin
evidence of attempts at subversive indoctrination or disloyal teaching—B. F. Wright
indoctrination can be smuggled in … in the name of democratic education—F. C. Neft
2
: something with or in which one is indoctrinated
freedom of minds, the maxims of logic and experimental proof, of intellectual honesty, of tolerance and persuasion … constitute a body of indoctrination to which no objection can consistently be raised—R. B. Perry
indoctrinational
(¦)⸗¦⸗⸗¦nāshənᵊl,
-shnəl
adjective
Word History
Etymology
indoctrinate + -ion
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