noviciate

Example Sentences

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The major's son, Fritz, was thus in his noviciate.

From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Crowe, Catherine

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

My noviciate was still in its first stage.

From The Crack of Doom by Cromie, Robert

Close to this, at the end of the street which runs parallel with S. Michele, is the Church of S. Francesco a Ripa, the noviciate of the Franciscans—"Frati Minori."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Those young persons who desire to be admitted to the beguinage must first become postulants, and afterward make their noviciate in the convents or communities.

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