noviciate

Example Sentences

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The third, the circle of voyages, Abred, comprised all the noviciate; it was there, at the bottom of the abysses, in the great oceans, as Taliesin says, that the first breath of man commenced.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

Days slowly elapsed without intelligence of Fido, and the arrangements became gradually completed by which, upon the Festival of All Saints, Fidunia was to enter her noviciate.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

A flourish of trumpets followed, while the margrave, with the flat of his sword, touched the noviciate three times on the shoulder.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

She was summoned to Rome, and, after three years' noviciate at the Sacramentarie, she was permitted, in 1862, to return to Monza, and to begin her community, fifteen nuns being clothed at the same time.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

My noviciate was still in its first stage.

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert