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Inoculating

noun

The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity. Synonym: vaccinating.

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"Inoculating" Quotes from Famous Books

... threshold of active life, with high ideals and glorious visions, full of hope and big with promise, but many of them will very quickly catch the money contagion; the fatal germ will spread through their whole natures, inoculating their ambition with its vicious virus, and, after a few years, their fair college vision will fade, their yearnings for something higher will gradually die and be replaced by material, sordid, ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... learn the principles of them. The chivalrous ideal was not conceived "all of a piece," and certainly it did not triumph without sustained effort; so it was by degrees, and very slowly, that the church succeeded in inoculating the almost animal intelligence and the untrained minds of our ancestors with ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various

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