Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who inculcates or enforces.

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  • noun One who inculcates.

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  • noun One who inculcates.

Etymologies

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Latin

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Examples

  • In it was the following kindly reference to myself: "Our present pleasing duty is to recognise the labours of Mr. Denvir -- efforts in such a cause are always touchingly beautiful -- as an inculcator of national sentiment; to illustrate the genuine literary interest and value of the first booklet of his new library; and to wish the library a long and useful, and in every way successful vogue."

    The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir

  • He regards the stage as a vehicle of patriotism, an instrument of education, a guider of artistic taste, an inculcator of old-time morality.

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • There are some intellectual Socialists whose mode of life has shielded them from the discipline of the Machine Process -- the inexorable inculcator of causation -- who attempt to place religion and ethics and other ideological phenomena in a separate category not to be accounted for by the materialistic conception of history.

    Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte

  • Its object was to point a moral: and it did this in two ways; either as an affirmative, constructive inculcator of what life should be, -- as the portrayer of the ideal; or as a negative, critical describer of the types of life actually existing, -- as the portrayer of the real.

    John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

  • Poussin's contemporaries praised him chiefly as a preceptor, an inculcator of historical truths, more especially the truths of classical and Hebrew history.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

  • He regards the stage as a vehicle of patriotism, an instrument of education, a guider of artistic taste, an inculcator of old-time morality.

    William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

  • While the various institutions within the political, economic, and other spheres are important, the family is the primary inculcator of the moral culture in a society.

    The Shotgun 2009

  • The first reason is proffered by small-r republicans, those who believe that government is an arbitrator, inculcator, and encourager of virtue.

    decorabilia 2008

  • In it was the following kindly reference to myself: “Our present pleasing duty is to recognise the labours of Mr. Denvir ” efforts in such a cause are always touchingly beautiful ” as an inculcator of national sentiment; to illustrate the genuine literary interest and value of the first booklet of his new library; and to wish the library a long and useful, and in every way successful vogue.”

    The Life Story of an Old Rebel Denvir, John 1910

  • An oath, to a moral man, is a very serious responsibility; the nature of an oath is awful; and when you consider my position in this place, as the inculcator of morals and piety to the younger branches of the community, you must not be surprised at my telling the truth. "

    The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook Frederick Marryat 1820

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