novitiate
- n the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
- n someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
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- As the young Belgian girl was about to begin her novitiate in an order of nuns whose motto is "Pray and Work," the Superior General gravely warned her: "It is not easy to be a.
- She plunges from her novitiate into professed nunhood in a "gambler's spirit.