novitiate
noun/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
(also noviciate)
(formal)- a period of being a noviceTopics Religion and festivalsc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin noviciatus, from Latin novicius ‘new’, from novus ‘new’.
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