novitiate

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Novitiate phase: Takes two years - one year of canonical novitiate and one year of apostolic novitiate.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2018

We’re here to talk about her role in Novitiate, a drama that premiered earlier this year at Sundance.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2017

A story of unheralded women of a different sort is told in the period convent drama "Novitiate," for which Betts won a special prize for breakthrough director in U.S. dramatic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2017

I am sitting in my room at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus, approximately five kilometers from the center of the city.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Shaker Society consists of two classes or orders: the Novitiate and the Church Order.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles