novitiate

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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

A priest and a novitiate walk into a creepy convent in Romania in “The Nun,” a 2018 spin-off of the 2016 terror tale “The Conjuring 2.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2019

She had joined the novitiate at the Sisters of the Star.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill