novitiate
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English
Etymology
From Middle French novitiat, from Medieval Latin novitiatus (“a novitiate”), from Latin novicius, novitius (“a novice”), from novus (“new”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nəˈvɪʃi.ət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: no‧vi‧ti‧ate
Noun
novitiate (plural novitiates)
- A novice.
- The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 214:
- Three weeks after the departure of the Mandevilles, all Naples flocked to witness the profession of a young Englishwoman, a dispensation having been obtained for the novitiate.
- The place where a novice lives and studies.
Related terms
Translations
the period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training
a novice
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Further reading
- “novitiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “novitiate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “novitiate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.