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novitiate

noun
🔊/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
🔊/nəʊˈvɪʃiət/
(also noviciate)
(formal)
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  1. a period of being a novice（修士或修女的）初学期Topics Religion and festivalsc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin noviciatus, from Latin novicius ‘new’, from novus ‘new’.