NOUN
- someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
- the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)
How To Use novitiate In A Sentence
- Even in the golden days of my novitiate, such places were few and far between.
- He and other engineers huddled over the gun like nuns inspecting a novitiate, but they could find no flaw.
- She enters from the left, posed as if she were a novitiate approaching the altar, her movements guided by her ‘double’ to her left.
- And then we see that the Maytag novitiate is in the back room with a cell phone, foiled in his attempt to get the box of Cheez-Its. CROSSOVER OF THE WEEK (THIS WEEK, REALLY!)
- A claustral oblate candidate may be received into the novitiate by the abbot with the consent of the chapter.
- Perhaps sixty of them are chosen for the novitiate. The Broken God
- David Jansen calls for new monastic communities to provide intentional spiritual formation, similar to the traditional novitiate.
- At his investiture, the novitiate describes being reduced to a skeleton by spirits who devour and then restore his flesh.
- This was the era of the sleep sessions, the trance-like states Breton and Philippe Soupault encouraged novitiates to enter into, through which they would speak and write ‘automatically.’
- The rush became a flood after the fiasco of Humanae Vitae in 1968 and seminaries, novitiates and training colleges fell like ninepins as many, if not most, priests, brothers and nuns chose lay life at a rate not seen since the Reformation.