Period of training and preparation that a Christian novice undergoes.
Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows.
1 The novitiate of Brother Francis' time was not the novitiate of today.
2 It unfortunately requires but little culture; still Helen was in her novitiate .
3 So I got myself testing the waters in the novitiate of journalism.
4 But he had lapsed back into the methods of his unskilled novitiate .
5 Because they have sent to Rome for a dispensation of your novitiate .
6 Ordinarily there was a novitiate of three, and sometimes of four years.
7 Even with his novitiate 's eye, he had no trouble reading the augury.
8 It may have been so; he was still in his novitiate of infamy.
9 Malaria carried her off the summer before she was to enter the novitiate .
10 At first he yields reluctantly to novitiate and culture; he yearns for action.
11 After this the angel took his leave, and the novitiate spirits departed sorrowful.
12 He passed his novitiate in prayer, and mortification, and pious reading and meditation.
13 A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
14 This incident of the fish made an end of my novitiate .
15 And no doubt during the novitiate he suffered a great deal.
16 The novitiate has its great joys, but it has its great trials also.
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