4 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
to accept someone's membership into an organization — typically in a ceremony — sometimes including a period of instruction and/or test
- She's going to have the female initiation ceremony too, she said.
initiation = a procedure or ceremony where someone is admitted into a group
(editor's note: In this case, female genital mutilation or female circumcision is performed at the ceremony.)
(editor's note: 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.
- 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.
There are no more uses of "initiate" in The Color Purple.
Typical Usage
(best examples)