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  • The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit.  (source)
    instill = put (ideas, principles, or teachings into another's mind)
  • A code that would instill discipline, restrain passion, and order his steps.  (source)
    instill = put ideas, principles, or teachings into other's minds
  • Before, the values we tried to instill in Cassie at home were continually undermined by the friendships she made.  (source)
    instill = put into one's mind
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  • No matter how much fear and suspicion he instilled in the players, Sam Westing knew that greed would keep them playing the game.  (source)
    instilled = put (into the minds)
  • He tried to instill some military training in me, but always sweetened it with candy.  (source)
    instill = put (ideas, principles, or teachings into another's mind)
  • The regulators are blaming Mr. and Mrs. Marks—and the whole extended family—for not instilling in her a proper education, and only a few days after she was supposedly found in Deering Oaks Park, I overhear my aunt and uncle whispering that both of Willow's parents have been fired from their jobs.†  (source)
    instilling = putting into one's mind
  • He instills confidence in his troops.†  (source)
    instills = puts into one's mind
  • I have, no doubt, instill'd into thy mind, That blessed spirit may not lie; since near The source of primal truth it dwells for aye: And thou might'st after of Piccarda learn That Constance held affection to the veil; So that she seems to contradict me here.†  (source)
    instill'd = put into one's mind
  • Sewing, stitching, any labour, Having always work to do, To the poison Love instilleth Is the antidote most sure.†  (source)
    instilleth = puts into one's mind
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She instilleth" in older English, today we say "She instills."
  • Thou afterwards didst instil it into me with his instillation in thy Epistle, so that I am full, and upon others shower down again your rain.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery.  (source)
    instilled = put into mind
  • As we tried to instill in each of our subjects over and over,WICKED is good.†  (source)
    instill = put into one's mind
  • I hate him for instilling awful things in my memory and somehow making me grieve for him in the midst of all the awful.†  (source)
    instilling = putting into one's mind
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