inculcate
verb (used with object)
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon orin ).
was inculcating
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past progressiveof inculcate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I pressed the dying girl closer to my heart, a species of involuntary declaration of the difficulty I experienced in regarding her loss with the religious philosophy she was inculcating.
From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper
Schuyler had instant call to practise the very virtue he was inculcating.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
What were preaching and benevolent intention, where shaven superstition was inculcating the cross by its weight alone, and bearded ferocity desolated with the sword what the cross could spare?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 by Various
Malherbe was inculcating its principles, Corneille and Molière were practicing its tenets in their plays, and Boileau was following its rules in his satires, when Waller and his associates came in contact with this influence.
From Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden
I was inculcating a method of life which I myself did not obey, or obeyed only in those respects that caused me neither sacrifice nor inconvenience.
From The Empire of Love by William J. Dawson
