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Definition of novitiate noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

novitiate

noun
 
/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
 
/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
(also noviciate)
(formal)
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  1. a period of being a noviceTopics Religion and festivalsc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin noviciatus, from Latin novicius ‘new’, from novus ‘new’.
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