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novitiate

or no·vi·ci·ate

[ noh-vish-ee-it, -eyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

novitiate

/ -ˌeɪt; nəʊˈvɪʃɪɪt /

the state of being a novice, esp in a religious order, or the period for which this lasts
the part of a religious house where the novices live
See novice
a less common word for novice

1590–1600; < Medieval Latin, equivalent to novīti ( us ) novice + -ātus -ate ³

C17: from French noviciat, from Latin novīcius novice

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.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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