All 3 Uses
instill
in
A Stolen Life
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- I have tried to instill in my kids a love of reading and even encouraged them to write their own stories.†
p. 165.9 *instill = put into one's mind
- I think one of the main reasons for that is, Phillip instilled the good habit of chewing sugar-free gum from a very early age in them.†
p. 250.2
- Now I feel it is doubly important to instill family dinnertime in the girls while they are still living at home.†
p. 258.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(instill) to put ideas, principles, or teachings into one's mind -- typically another's mind over time with repetition
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, instill can reference pouring something (usually medicine) one drop at a time.