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novitiate

[noh-vish-ee-it, -eyt] / noʊˈvɪʃ i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /


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Set in Rome in 1971 just before the events of the first movie, “The First Omen’s” central figure is Margaret Daino, a dewy, virginal American novitiate played by Nell Tiger Free.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

Knowledge Fight’s comic conceit has the Infowars voyeur Mr. Friesen reviewing Mr. Jones’s broadcasts with Mr. Holmes, who plays an Infowars novitiate.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2021

In 1977, she entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph in Maple Mount, Ky. She moved to Guatemala after teaching kindergarten in Kentucky.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021

The property was used as a traditional novitiate until 1968, when the novitiate program was moved to Chicago.

From Washington Times • Feb. 29, 2020

She submits to my mother like a solemn novitiate.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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