Novitiate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NOVITIATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being a (religious) novice, also NOVICIATE
• the period or state of being a novice, especially in a religious order.
• a place housing religious novices.
• period of being a novice
• The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.
• Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.
• One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice.
• The place where novices live or are trained.
• 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
• a novice, especially in a religious order.

Words related to NOVITIATE

noviciate14 novitiates13

Words that contain NOVITIATE

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How to use NOVITIATE in a sentence

• The first step, the preliminary instruction in our creed and our simpler mysteries, which is the work of the Novitiate, is a solemn epoch in the lives of our children.
• Then Lucie, now nineteen years old, and full of mystical exaltation, had already entered an Ursuline convent for her novitiate.
• When his novitiate was ended he became second mate on a sailing vessel bound for Argentina for a cargo of wheat.
• 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.
• He passed his novitiate in prayer and mortification and pious reading and meditation.
• So I got myself testing the waters in the novitiate of journalism.
• If worthy, he became a servant, and only after proving by a long novitiate his qualities was he given the lowest rank.
• Rosalie, just beginning, or about to begin, her novitiate.
• At the end of this year of probation, if you shall still desire to do so, you may be permitted to take the white vail and commence your novitiate.
• About the time I emerged from the novitiate class I discerned yet one more gratifying fact.
• For when they are opened a very little, which happens when novitiate devils enter, they excite vomiting and cause headache, and such as are also poisonous induce fainting.
• In all kindness, the Balzac novitiate is warned against beginning an acquaintance with the author through the medium of the Analytical Studies.
• Within two months, she received twenty girls into the novitiate, notwithstanding the rigorous and austere rules of this order.
• None were admitted into this order but after a long and laborious novitiate, which made the character venerable in their own eyes by the time and difficulty of attaining it.
• Those long years of his novitiate and wandering were not without their uses now.
• During his novitiate he came into conflict with the superiors of his convent for the first time.
• In all the long history of literature there is no record of any other author who served so severe a novitiate.
• The Regent Master was required to devote forty days of his novitiate to disputation.
• She had wished to come out into the garden alone for this last walk, and to wear the habit of her novitiate, though she had voluntarily given up the right to it forever.
• The discomforts of the Villa Bella Vista mattered little to the girl who had gone through a hard novitiate in a Scotch convent.
• The old oppression under which she had panted in the last days of her novitiate fell upon her again, like a weight.
• But Eagle March, though he was not for me, made all the difference, and put my heart into a convent where it was now undergoing its novitiate.
• Ordinarily there was a novitiate of three, and sometimes of four years.
• After his novitiate, the candidate entered the cavern of initiation, and was received on the point of a sword presented to his naked left breast, by which he was slightly wounded.
• Novitiate and apprenticeship in any profession, are difficult.
• He had closed his novitiate, and was awaiting his examination for admission to the bar.
• In the middle of the choir the body of the victim, clothed in her novitiate dress, was exposed.
• He was instantly received, and at once began to prepare for his novitiate.
• He was still undergoing his novitiate, and to raise his hat to Miss Cousins, when he encountered that austere lady on the street, was as yet the height of social triumph.
• It was in the early days of his novitiate, before he had ceased to question the workings of Providence.
• Count Waldstein at twenty-four, on coming of age, entered the Germanic order, passing the year of his novitiate at the Court of the Elector at Bonn.
• March 23, 1556, and became a novitiate in the Jesuit order in 1571-1572.

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