inculcation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the process of firmly instilling an idea, value, or habit through persistent instruction or repetition

   The school's program emphasized the inculcation of intellectual honesty from an early age.

From Late Latin inculcatio, based on Latin inculcare, 'to tread in or impress upon,' from in-, 'upon,' and calcare, 'to tread,' itself from calx, 'heel.' The physical image of pressing something in became a metaphor for fixing ideas in the mind through repetition.

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