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Definition of Novitiates
1. novitiate [n] - See also: novitiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novitiates
Literary usage of Novitiates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(2) novitiates giving religious formation with adapted studies. (3) Junior- ales
providing a complete classical course preparatory to the sacred sciences. ..."
2. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"entrusting them to the memory of novitiates. 4th. Scaliger was of opinion that "
Gracis," in Caesar, is an interpolation, and the sense will well admit of ..."
3. A Young Scholar's Letters: Being a Memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith by Byron Caldwell Smith, Day Otis Kellogg (1897)
"A few days ago I saw there a flock of novitiates, young nuns. Some of the girls
were the most beautiful I have ever seen, I think really wonderful. ..."
4. Italy in the Nineteenth Century by James Whiteside (1860)
"The Propaganda.— Its Exhibition in Honour of the Holy Magi. — Discipline of the
novitiates.—Walk by the Porta Pia to the Mons Sacer. ..."
5. Forty Years of American Life by Thomas Low Nichols (1864)
"The novitiates.—A noisy dinner.— Benediction.—Sisters of Charity.—Heroism and
devotion.— Protestant sisterhoods. IT may be thought that I have given more ..."
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