Definition of "noviciate" []

• The period during which you are a novice (noun)

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• "When we were at the noviciate, we observed, while serving his private Mass, that after the introit, the gradual, the offertory, the communion – all the sung pieces, in short – he would mark a pause, not found in the rubrics, and absorb himself in meditation."
• "During her noviciate, her spiritual director was Fr Aladel, who had also been the director of St. Catherine Laboure."
• "Lochleven, hunted round to the place in which I served my noviciate, and now ye are come to rouse me up again! —"