All 5 Uses of
initiate
in
Middlemarch
- Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *initiation = introduction (to an activity or area of knowledge)
- That more complete teaching would come—Mr. Casaubon would tell her all that: she was looking forward to higher initiation in ideas, as she was looking forward to marriage, and blending her dim conceptions of both.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- …he had a youthful belief in his bread-winning work, not to be stifled by that initiation in makeshift called his 'prentice days;
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Probably its regular visitants, like the initiates of freemasonry, wished that there were something a little more tremendous to keep to themselves concerning it; but they were not a closed community, and many decent seniors as well as juniors occasionally turned into the billiard-room to see what was going on.
Chpt 7 (definition 2) *initiates = people who have been formally accepted into an organization, or been introduced to or attained some expertise in a particular field
- Dorothea wished to acknowledge that she had not the less an active life before her because she had buried a private joy; and the tradition that fresh garments belonged to all initiation, haunting her mind, made her grasp after even that slight outward help towards calm resolve.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)initiation = introduction (to an activity or area of knowledge)
Definitions:
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(1) (initiate as in: initiate into the art of drumming) introduce to an activity or area of knowledge
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(2) (initiate as in: She is a new initiate.) someone who has formally started in an organization, or been introduced to or attained some expertise in a particular field