Definition of "novitiates" []

• Plural form of novitiate. (noun)

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• "When Khalar Singh, a powerful warlord with ambitions to become the king of Acheron, storms the monastery and captures all of the novitiates, she is separated from Ilira, the one she must protect."
• "Those who were not to be provided for were doomed to be spinsters or poor relations, and as a result, most convents were packed not with devout novitiates, but poor young women."
• "The brothers, sisters, and novitiates of the Oath of the C'venants mumbled prayers as Marcus's breathing steadied."