NOUN
- someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
- the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
How To Use novitiate In A Sentence
- The demands made upon Martin in the novitiate in his difficult work with the dying - and the hard-won joy it brings - lead to a further thought.
- The first occupants of the novitiate were the founder himself, his first associate, Father La Vavasseur, and a sub-deacon, M. Collin. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.
- She entered the novitiate soon after her baptism and pronounced her final vows on September 19, 1699.
- Canon law stipulates that the novitiate should be a separate house or area. MONIALES OP
- Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast.
- Born and raised in a farming family at Kyledellig, he went to school in Aghaboe and from there to Tullow, Co. Carlow, where he entered the novitiate in 1942.
- His sister, Isabella, a cloistered novitiate, petitions Angelo for mercy.
- All were nobles, trained in the profession of arms, and this period – which might be described as a novitiate – was the crucible in which the specific spirituality of the Templars gradually took shape. Archive 2009-03-01
- Conscience prevailing, he was received at Douai, then sent from Rome by the Jesuits to Bohemia to serve his novitiate, before being reordained in Prague.
