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Another word for novitiate

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Noun

  1. An entrant who has not yet taken the final vows of a religious order

    See also:

    religion

  2. One who is just starting to learn or do something

    See also:

    start

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Another word for novitiate

Noun

  1. Apprenticeship

    See also:

    origin

  2. Novice

    See also:

    amateur

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Sentence Examples

  • His novitiate was marked by a fervour of humility.

  • These various members of the Society are distributed in its novitiate houses, its colleges, its professed houses and its mission residences.

  • The old infirmary building is now occupied by St Joseph's College, a commercial academy of the Marist Brotherhood, in connexion with which there is a novitiate for the training of members of the order for missionary service at home or abroad.

  • A lay brother, before he can become called away to a third year's novitiate, called the tertianship, as a preparation for his solemn profession of the three vows.

  • This glade can seldom be reached until she candidate is in his forty-fifth year, which involves a probaLion of thirty-one years in the case of those who have entered on the novitiate at the earliest legal age.

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