initiatee
initiatee noun: one who, or that which, is initiated.
Noun
initiatee (plural initiatees)
- One who, or that which, is initiated.
- The following ceremony is gone into at the time of initiation. When there is more than one initiatee, all should stand in a row facing the Holy Scripture. One of the five reciters then holds the Amrita. Two of them stand on his right and left, the forth stands behind the initiatees to dress their...1914, Khazan Singh, History and Philosophy of the Sikh Religion (in Two Parts), part II (Philosophy), Lahore: […] [T]he “Newal Kishore” Press, Ld., page 568
- Initiative is the ability possessed by one person to lay out work for another. The initiator is limited only by hours of wakefulness and the scope of his imagination. He organizes conventions, appoints committees, placing others like himself at their head. And then one of these initiators calls...1915, Transactions of the Panama Pacific Dental Congress, volume 3, page 312
- Antonyms:
- initiator
Examples of initiatee in a sentence
- When there is more than one initiatee, all should stand in a row facing the Holy Scripture.1914, Khazan Singh, History and Philosophy of the Sikh Religion (in Two Parts), part II (Philosophy), Lahore: […] [T]he “Newal Kishore”...
- And then one of these initiators calls upon the initiatee with imperative command: “Do this,” and he doeth it.1915, Transactions of the Panama Pacific Dental Congress, volume 3, page 312:
- Furthermore, the initiatee is the one who takes the initiative, with gestures that again seem to fall short of girlish ignorance.1995, Simone Vauthier, “Little Red Riding Hood Rides Again: A Reading of David Arnason’s “Girl and Wolf””, in Theo D’haen, Hans Bertens...
- She had been doing it for so long on the “initiator’s” side that she had no sense of the agony of the “initiatees.”2000, William McMillen, Sticks, Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, →ISBN, page 265:
Antonyms of initiatee
Forms of initiatee
| plural | initiatees |
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Origin of initiatee
From initiate + -ee.
Questions about initiatee
- What does initiatee mean?
- Initiatee means one who, or that which, is initiated.
- How do you use initiatee in a sentence?
- When there is more than one initiatee, all should stand in a row facing the Holy Scripture.
- What part of speech is initiatee?
- Initiatee is a noun.
- What is the plural of initiatee?
- The plural of initiatee is initiatees.
Words near initiatee in the dictionary
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