novitiate Meaning and Definition
1. n. someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
2. n. the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
In the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church, the novitiate, also called the noviciate, is the period of training and preparation that a novice (or prospective) monastic, apostolic, or member of a religious institute undergoes prior to taking vows in order to discern whether she or he is called to vowed religious life.
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