novitiate
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- noun
- /nəˈvɪʃiˌeɪt/
- Specialized
:
noviciado
- He spent two years in the novitiate, preparing to take his religious vows.
- year of my novitiate
Examples
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All the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction who served their novitiate at Saint Gildard received assignments elsewhere; none stayed on to live at the Mother House.
Fiction book (2002) -
The community held a celebration for the novices who completed their novitiate period.
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I stood by the drinking fountain and thought that it was probably time to decide what order I would like to enter as a novitiate.
Fiction book (1990) -
During their novitiate, the young men learn the secret metaphoric language mentioned earlier.
Academic text (1993) -
After a novitiate of only six months, she was allowed to make her solemn profession on September 8, 1677.
Academic text (1994) -
This harsh lifestyle stressed humility, lowliness, personal unworthiness, and guilt, especially during the first year, known as the novitiate year.
Academic text (2008) -
Born in 1668, Bartholomew Des Bosses studied humanities and philosophy and did his novitiate in Trier (1686-89).
Academic text (2016) -
As a young man who entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Guelph, Ontario, in 1922, Lonergan belonged to a generation of Jesuits whose religious training was framed by a classicist model of spiritual perfection.
Academic text (2001) -
During her novitiate, she received training on the principles of the religious order.
Synonyms
A time when a new member of a religious order learns its rules before taking final vows
A final period of training before taking religious vows
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Etymology
Novitiate comes from the Latin root nov- meaning 'new', the same root you see in novice and novel. It once meant the time of being a 'new' member, so a novitiate is the period of training someone spends in a religious community before becoming a full member.