novitiate
Pre-vows training period
A novitiate is the period of being a novice, particularly in a religious order—the probationary time before taking final vows.
The word also refers to the place where novices live and train, or to the novice themselves.
She spent her novitiate at a convent in upstate New York.
By extension, any period of learning or probation: his novitiate in the insurance business.
consecrated
Dedicated career path
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- professionTrained occupational field
- formationCreation or arrangement
postulant · aspirant · discernment · religious life · celibacy · chastity · poverty · obedience
vocation
Dedicated career path
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- vowsSolemn binding promises
- professionTrained occupational field
formation · postulant · aspirant · discernment · religious life · celibacy · chastity · poverty · obedience · habit
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- beginnersbeginner, rookie, newbie, newcomer, trainee
- newcomersnewcomers, newcomer, new arrivals, new arrival, newbie
- novicesbeginner, rookie, newbie, greenhorn, neophyte
- trainingtraining, basic training, training session, employee training, apprenticeships
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience