noviciate

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The noviciate period of cadets, midshipmen, apprentices, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

They entered on their duties after a noviciate of nine months, and were called Dames de Saint Louis.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

He passed his noviciate in prayer, and mortification, and pious reading, and meditation.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Admission to the Society was attended by a variety of ceremonies; a protracted noviciate followed, and it was only by progressive advancement that any were promoted to the higher dignities.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

My official duties, the mere entrance into office, occupied me laboriously for a while, and I felt all the habitual difficulties of my noviciate.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various