novitiate
noun
the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
noviciate
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a variation of
novitiate.
Example Sentences
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My official duties, the mere entrance into office, occupied me laboriously for a while, and I felt all the habitual difficulties of my noviciate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
My noviciate was still in its first stage.
From The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie
A flourish of trumpets followed, while the margrave, with the flat of his sword, touched the noviciate three times on the shoulder.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
His noviciate is nearly expired; tomorrow he will pronounce his vows.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
The commencement of her noviciate was no longer thought of, and her visits to the Carmelites became sufficiently rare.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
