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plural novitiates
A novice. examples
The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training. quotations examples
Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 214
The place where a novice lives and studies. examples