Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a novice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a novice; novitiate.
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- noun The state or position of being a
novice .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if giddy fellows, or giddy girls, misbehave in a first marriage, whether from noviceship, having expected to find more in the matter than can be found; or from perverseness on her part, or positiveness on his, each being mistaken in the other [a mighty difference, Jack, in the same person, an inmate or a visiter]; what
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose any for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of the children of God.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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This office he discharged during five years with so much integrity, prudence, and virtue, that the eyes of the whole kingdom were fixed on him, and his life in the world was a holy noviceship to the pastoral charge.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose any for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of the children of God.
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The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose any for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of the children of God.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The meaning is, that before wisdom will choose any for her favourite, she will try them by leading them through contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual noviceship of the children of God.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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As the English province was as yet non-existent, he was allotted to that of Bohemia, entering on his noviceship at Prague and passing his probation year at Brunn in Moravia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The period of postulantship lasts six months, that of noviceship eighteen months, and after six years, permanent vows are taken.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Without any previous noviceship, they promise obedience and make oblation of themselves to the monastery of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Lucy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Jesus in 1623, and made his noviceship on the Mission, retiring to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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