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novitiate
[ noh-vish-ee-it, -eyt ]
noun
- the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
- the quarters occupied by religious novices during probation.
- the state or period of being a beginner in anything.
- a novice.
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Origin of novitiate1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
A petition to be made a nun without having to go through the novitiate in the white veil was placed before me, and I signed it.
He spent some months in Prato with his friend Fra Diamante, who had been his companion in novitiate.
It was a position of great trust, and never before in the history of the monastery had it been given to a mere novitiate.
I never dared ask myself what the outcome of it all would be; I wanted to finish my novitiate first.
He was called another Confucius, and was even empowered by the authorities to establish a novitiate at Pekin.
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