noviciate

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Admission to the Society was attended by a variety of ceremonies; a protracted noviciate followed, and it was only by progressive advancement that any were promoted to the higher dignities.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

The commencement of her noviciate was no longer thought of, and her visits to the Carmelites became sufficiently rare.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

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 Manzoni, Alessandro

Hence a universal Pythagorean noviciate would, sooner or later, give rise to epidemics, and Chartreuses of nuns would become pesthouses.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Days slowly elapsed without intelligence of Fido, and the arrangements became gradually completed by which, upon the Festival of All Saints, Fidunia was to enter her noviciate.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa