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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "novitiate" in a sentence

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    novitiate


    1. publication that often confronts the novitiate


    2. entered the novitiate of the Daughters of Charity


    3. In the Yoga-Vasishtha you will find: “The right course to be adopted by one who is in his novitiate is this: Two parts of the mind must be filled with the objects of Enjoyment, one part with Philosophy and the remaining part with Devotion to the teacher


    4. The small band of women passed their novitiate training in relative peace and eventually professed their private vows of charity and humility


    5. One incident during their year of novitiate was a little humbling and unsettling


    6. Steve had been in the service and Francis had been through postulancy, novitiate, and the early years of vowed monastic life


    7. When they are too old to be soldiers they are to retire from active life and to have a second novitiate of study and contemplation


    8. Anthony said: “He will have to prove his sincerity during his novitiate, like anyone else


    9. The author had hinted that Jack had been a reluctant recruit, and had not taken easily to monastic discipline; at any rate, his novitiate had ended abruptly in circumstances over which Timothy drew a tactful veil


    10. “Those of us who have spent seven years studying medicine at the university are always glad to be lectured on illness by young nuns barely out of their novitiate

    11. Meanwhile, Caris had shortened the period of novitiate and intensified the training so that she would have more help in the hospital


    12. With her was Sister Joan, a young nun recently out of her novitiate


    13. only a year or two out of her novitiate, but Caris thought highly of her nursing skill, and was grooming her to


    14. They had all had an extraordinarily short novitiate, but Henri was keen to raise the number of monks at Kingsbridge, and he said the same thing was going on all over the country


    15. " The Superior told him about the novitiate and the training and said: "You are not a young man


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    Synonyms for "novitiate"

    novice novitiate noviciate apprentice beginner amateur neophyte newcomer intern tutelage origin

    "novitiate" definitions

    the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)


    someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows