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novitiate
/nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
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What does novitiate mean?
noun
- A novice.
- The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
- The place where a novice lives and studies.
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/nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
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There is no novitiate, no training by habit in the choice of the materials for the nest.
The air of assurance and dignity about it all was exceedingly noticeable to the novitiate.
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If he could pass muster anywhere during his early novitiate it would be in small inns and on the road; so to these places we confined ourselves.
With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.
In Australia a novitiate at the ceremony of manhood drank a mouthful of blood from the veins of the warrior who was to be his sponsor.