noviciate

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After four years of such instruction, his father's death called him home to inherit his property, and he spent the three years that followed by tourneying in the noviciate of knighthood.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

After a noviciate of twelve days, full of resolves and counter-resolves, the moment arrived when she finally pronounced the fatal “yes,” which was to exclude her from the world for ever.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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

Candidates for admission have to pass through a noviciate, more or less lengthy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

My noviciate was still in its first stage.

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert