All 4 Uses of
initiate
in
The Color Purple
- She's going to have the female initiation ceremony too, she said.
*initiation = a procedure or ceremony where someone is admitted into a groupeditor's notes: In this case, female genital mutilation or female circumcision is performed at the ceremony.
- Tashi was happy that the initiation ceremony isn't done in Europe or America, said Olivia.
initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
- Her friends said while we were away she'd undergone both the facial scarification ceremony and the rite of female initiation.
- And to forgive the repugnance he'd felt about the female initiation ceremony.
Definition:
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(initiate as in: initiate into the fraternity) to accept someone's membership into an organization -- typically in a ceremony -- sometimes including a period of instruction and/or test