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Definition of Initiations
1. initiation [n] - See also: initiation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Initiations
Literary usage of Initiations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and immoral ceremonies of these initiations to manhood, womanhood, and often
at the same time to nubility, with almost no interval after the first ..."
2. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1897)
"The more the society extended, chiefly by the ambitious schemes of Cerinthus,
the more such initiations increased, and thus there gradually arose in the ..."
3. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"The system reached its height in the seventeenth century, and long defied all
the efforts of Professors and Governments to put it down ". initiations In ..."
4. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Beggary and Blasphemy disallowed—initiations—Fines for the Non-Payment of
Dues—Work or Starve—Contributions to Valuable Knowledge by French, Austrian, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1898)
"initiations INTO ADOLESCENCE. BY G. STANLEY HALL. AFTER finishing a book soon to
be published on adolescence, its physiology, diseases, crime, psychology, ..."
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