noviciate
- a variation of novitiate.
Example Sentences
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They entered on their duties after a noviciate of nine months, and were called Dames de Saint Louis.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
My noviciate was still in its first stage.
From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert
She was summoned to Rome, and, after three years' noviciate at the Sacramentarie, she was permitted, in 1862, to return to Monza, and to begin her community, fifteen nuns being clothed at the same time.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
You know the vows, in which you have already been approved through the noviciate.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
But, though the original rule of the Templars enjoined a noviciate, it was totally neglected in practice; a matter which was afterwards made one of the charges against the order.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas
