inculcate
verb (used with object)
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon orin ).
had inculcated
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past perfectof inculcate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She remembers how a “feeling of otherness” had inculcated in her a sense of caution, “a lifelong habit of observing before acting.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
Bengali parents had inculcated a love of music and culture while their boys were very young.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2012
It was his mother, the formidable Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had inculcated in him her own love of collecting and given him his first stamps.
From Time Magazine Archive
The school in Siberia which had inculcated such thoughts and sentiments had begun bitterly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The modest, ideal which my earliest teachers had inculcated faded away; I had embarked upon a sea agitated by all the storms and currents of the age.
From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest
