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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.

The noviciate period of cadets, midshipmen, apprentices, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

He passed his noviciate in prayer, and mortification, and pious reading, and meditation.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

When De la Salle arrived there he left behind him in Rheims a principal house containing sixteen Brothers, and a training college for country schoolmasters, containing thirty men, besides fifteen lads in their noviciate.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Every young Jesuit in Europe was first trained, during two full years of noviciate, to the exact practice of religious virtues.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)