Definitions for novitiate

novitiate no·vi·ti·ate

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

Novitiate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in novitiate (aeiinottv).

Definitions for novitiate

noun

  1. the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
  2. the quarters occupied by religious novices during probation.
  3. the state or period of being a beginner in anything.
  4. a novice.

Origin of novitiate

1590-1600; Medieval Latin, equivalent to novīti(us) novice + -ātus -ate3

Examples for novitiate

The novitiate has its great joys, but it has its great trials also.

So she began her novitiate and was presently received into the order.

It may have been so; he was still in his novitiate of infamy.

I see no difficulty in putting Mlle. de Grouchy into the novitiate; why not also Fontanges, who desires it so ardently?

We ourselves do not care to take pupils who have no idea at all of the novitiate.

But it was in Italy that he had passed through his novitiate as an artist.

I have sent word to Mme. de Brinon to examine them all, and to begin nothing for the novitiate until my return.

He will review them as soon as his two years of novitiate are over.

The air of assurance and dignity about it all was exceedingly noticeable to the novitiate.

Our novitiate is a large apartment with five immense windows in it.

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