Both Uses of
initiate
in
The House of Mirth
- ...and her imagination was fired by the thought that Mr. Gryce, who might have sounded the depths of the most complex self-indulgence, was perhaps actually taking his first journey alone with a pretty woman. It struck her as providential that she should be the instrument of his initiation.
Chpt 1.2 *initiation = introduction (to an activity or area of knowledge)
- She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother's, spent all his week days in the handsome Broad Street office where a batch of pale men on small salaries had grown grey in the management of the Gryce estate, and where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation.
Chpt 1.2initiated = introduced (to an area of knowledge)
Definition:
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(initiate as in: initiate into the art of drumming) introduce to an activity or area of knowledge