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Definition of Instilling
1. Noun. Teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition.
Generic synonyms: Indoctrination
Derivative terms: Inculcate, Instill, Instill
Definition of Instilling
1. Verb. (present participle of instill) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Instilling
1. instill [v] - See also: instill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instilling
Literary usage of Instilling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"Instilling Skills for Resisting Social Influences to Smoke Prevention research
grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National ..."
2. The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for by James Burgh (1804)
"Thy curling tresses, and thy silver lyre, Thy graceful form instilling soft
desire, Warning. ... instilling ..."
3. Schools Without Drugs: What Works (1993)
"... Parents Instilling Responsibility Recommendation #1: Teach standards of right
and wrong and demonstrate these standards through personal example. ..."
4. Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (1912)
"... instilling into the youthful minds such practical knowledge and high principles
of conduct as would inevitably lead them onward and upward to success. ..."
5. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"... Contemporary—Their common Creed—Different Manner of instilling their
Doctrines—Argus Persecution of Governor Latrobe—His Antecedents—His Qualification— ..."
6. The Rebellion of 1815, Generally Known as Slachters Nek: A Complete by H. C. V. Leibbrandt (1902)
"... seem well calculated to be of ultimate advantage to the Colony, by instilling
into the minds of their adherents some idea of the advantages of sobriety, ..."
7. The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of by James Hardie, A. Citizen (1801)
"He insisted on being the last prisoner executed that day, in order to have an
opportunity of instilling principles in the mind of each, by a short harangue, ..."
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