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Use "noviciate" in a sentence
"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! —"