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Definition of Noviciate
1. Noun. The period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order).
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Definition of Noviciate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noviciate
Literary usage of Noviciate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"Demon Btra- tion cultivated for submission. The noviciate will lead the ...
For the right institution of the scientific noviciate, it must be always ..."
2. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward, ( (1912)
"... VI THE ORATORIAN noviciate (1847) THOUGH the plan of being secular priests
and Oratorians rather than Jesuits or Friars was not formally determined on ..."
3. Notices of the English Colleges & Convents Established on the Continent by Frederick Charles Husenbeth, Edward Petre (1849)
"noviciate OF THE ENGLISH JESUITS AT WATTEN. Watten is situated two leagues from St.
Omer, on the canal leading to Dunkirk. About the year 1570, ..."
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