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novitiates

novitiates is the plural of novitiate.

Meaning of novitiate

Noun

novitiate (plural novitiates)

  1. A novice.
  2. The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
    • 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.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214
  3. The place where a novice lives and studies.

Questions about novitiates

What is novitiates the plural of?
Novitiates is the plural of novitiate.

Words near novitiates in the dictionary

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  2. novirhabdoviruses
  3. novis
  4. novitial
  5. novitiate
  6. novitiates
  7. novitiateship
  8. novitiation
  9. novitiations
  10. novities
  11. novitious

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