inculcate
verb (used with object)
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon orin ).
inculcator
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a word derived from
inculcate.
Example Sentences
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The female has from the beginning been not only the nurturer but also the inculcator in the young of complex social skills, the key to evolution.
From Time Magazine Archive
The temper that they inculcate and that they exhibit in the inculcator is positively kindly and relatively correct.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
Universal conscription proved then as now the great inculcator of peace.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
He regards the stage as a vehicle of patriotism, an instrument of education, a guider of artistic taste, an inculcator of old-time morality.
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
Poussin's contemporaries praised him chiefly as a preceptor, an inculcator of historical truths, more especially the truths of classical and Hebrew history.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
