inculcation

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Your dogmas and inculcations sound to me like the last words of a bicycle pump.

From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.

Early education is sometimes greatly at fault in its inculcations, and this was, in Moore's case, peculiarly so.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry

These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Such out-going of the imagination is one with aspiration, and will do more to elevate above what is low and vile than all possible inculcations of morality.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

It deserves to be distinctly considered that the gospel contains little or nothing directly by way of precept against slavery; but slavery is inconsistent with its general requirements and inculcations and is therefore wrong.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by Dodge, David Low