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indoctrinate
verb 3
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5ADJ.
required
VERB + INDOCTRINATE
attempt, hope
INDOCTRINATE + NOUN
christian, marxism-leninism-mao's
PREP.
in, into
ADV.
further
Definitions
verb
1
To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.
2
To teach and instill (something, to a person) in a biased, one-sided way.
[...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.
[They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.
3
To teach; to instruct.
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[...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.
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[They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.
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She […] felt uncomfortable that she was to her mind 'pushing Christian values'. Apparently lurking beneath her discomfort was a sense that she was required to indoctrinate Christian values in a search
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