Thesaurus / novitiate

novitiate

How to use novitiate in a sentence

A petition to be made a nun without having to go through the novitiate in the white veil was placed before me, and I signed it.

He spent some months in Prato with his friend Fra Diamante, who had been his companion in novitiate.

It was a position of great trust, and never before in the history of the monastery had it been given to a mere novitiate.

I never dared ask myself what the outcome of it all would be; I wanted to finish my novitiate first.

He was called another Confucius, and was even empowered by the authorities to establish a novitiate at Pekin.

After this the angel took his leave, and the novitiate spirits departed sorrowful.

Novitiate spirits are men newly deceased, who are called spirits, because they are then spiritual men.

I was once conversing with a novitiate spirit who, during his abode in the world, had meditated much about heaven and hell.

Small palace inhabited by two novitiate conjugial partners, 316.

By novitiate spirits are meant men newly deceased, who are called spirits because they are then spiritual men, 461.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985