- a variation of novitiate.
noviciate
Example Sentences
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You know the vows, in which you have already been approved through the noviciate.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
Hardly was the ceremony of assuming the habit completed, when the superior informed him he must depart on the morrow to perform his noviciate at ——, sixty miles' distance.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
My official duties, the mere entrance into office, occupied me laboriously for a while, and I felt all the habitual difficulties of my noviciate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
A flourish of trumpets followed, while the margrave, with the flat of his sword, touched the noviciate three times on the shoulder.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Escaping from the English army, he joined the French service, and again fleeing, he entered a French monastery, remaining there until he had passed his noviciate.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
