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

You know the vows, in which you have already been approved through the noviciate.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf

Those young persons who desire to be admitted to the beguinage must first become postulants, and afterward make their noviciate in the convents or communities.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

When De la Salle arrived there he left behind him in Rheims a principal house containing sixteen Brothers, and a training college for country schoolmasters, containing thirty men, besides fifteen lads in their noviciate.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

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