novitiate
pronunciation
How to pronounce novitiate in British English:
UK [nəʊˈvɪʃiət]
How to pronounce novitiate in American English:
US [noˈvɪʃiɪt, -ˌet]
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- Noun:
- the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
- someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
Word Origin
- novitiate (n.)
- also noviciate, "state of being a novice," c. 1600, from Middle French noviciat or directly from Medieval Latin novitiatus, from Late Latin novitius "novice," from Latin adjective novicius (see novice).
Example
- 1. Except probation , the salary between novitiate also cannot under minimum wage standard .
- 2. There were then at la trappe seventy religious and a numerous and fervent novitiate .
- 3. In 1974 the church spent $ 1.1 million for an old jesuit novitiate in oregon .
- 4. The worker is mixed in novitiate cannot enjoy inside exercitation period visit one 's family false .
- 5. Novitiate or probation are laborer begins to fulfil new labor contract , be engaged in new occupational suiting period .