Initiation Definition

ĭ-nĭshē-āshən
noun
The act or process of initiating something.
American Heritage
An initiating or being initiated.
Webster's New World
The ceremony or conventions by which a person is initiated into a fraternity, club, etc.
Webster's New World
The condition of being initiated.
American Heritage
A ceremony, ritual, test, or period of instruction with which a new member is admitted to an organization or office or to knowledge.
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Other Word Forms of Initiation

Noun

Singular:
initiation
Plural:
initiations

Origin of Initiation

  • From Middle French initiation, from Latin initiatio

    From Wiktionary

Initiation Sentence Examples

  • The initiation consists of three stages.

  • I will be in charge of your initiation.

  • Unlike coffee-planting the enterprise owes its origin to the initiation of government, and has never attracted the attention of the natives.

  • The initiation of this movement was the great achievement of Groot's life; he lived to preside over the birth and first days of his other creation, the society of Brothers of Common Life.

  • But the moral characteristics which they most earnestly cultivated and enjoined will best appear in their rules of initiation.

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Words Starting With

IININI

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With I and Ending With N

Starts With I & Ends With NStarts With IN & Ends With NStarts With I & Ends With ON

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