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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of instill.

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Examples

  • – The necessity of obedience early instilled is the foundation of all good management.

    The Mother's Book 1831

  • Camille's mother has driven her into an absurd quest to pack on charity work to her college application, demonstrating the notion instilled early in Upper East Siders 'lives that community service means picking out dresses to be featured at charity fashion shows.

    Carolyn Rubenstein: Is Reality TV Hurting the Integrity of Community Service? 2009

  • When the disaster is not interrupted by acts of violence, it causes an irreparable destruction of the youthfulness of the soul, it is the idea instilled in us forever that all can betray, since we have been betrayed in that manner.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Instead of aiming at its proper control, the idea instilled is that the mere mention of sexuality, and even its very existence, are things gravely immoral.

    The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

  • When the disaster is not interrupted by acts of violence, it causes an irreparable destruction of the youthfulness of the soul, it is the idea instilled in us forever that all can betray, since we have been betrayed in that manner.

    Cosmopolis — Complete Paul Bourget 1893

  • Camille's mother has driven her into an absurd quest to pack on charity work to her college application, demonstrating the notion instilled early in Upper East Siders 'lives that community service means picking out dresses to be featured at charity fashion shows.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • However obscure his responsibility for the affair is to each, and however strong the idea instilled into all of them that they are not men, but governors, officials, officers, and soldiers, and as such beings can violate every human duty, the nearer they approach the place of the execution, the stronger their doubts as to its being right, and this doubt will reach its highest point when the very moment for carrying it out has come.

    The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Namely, as Lenin insisted, in order for the proletariat to acquire revolutionary consciousness, such consciousness must be "instilled" in them by the elitist Communist Party "from the outside."

    Lenin & 'The Radiant Future' Feifer, George 2001

  • And although they may have disagreed with the situation I think once their country called 'em they felt an obligation — that patriotism is just kind of instilled in 'em.

    Oral History Interview with Strom Thurmond, July 1978. Interview A-0334. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1978

  • "I was raised with the idea instilled in me that only a person with unstable and unsound beliefs tries to silence those with beliefs different from his or her own.

    Matthew Harwood: No Dominion: The Dangerous Fight Against Christian Supremacists in the Armed Forces 2010

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