Noun:

சமயத் துறை வகையில் புதுப் பயிற்சியாளர் காலம்,

novitiate's Usage Examples:

A lay brother, before he can become called away to a third year's novitiate, called the tertianship, as a preparation for his solemn profession of the three vows.

In 1580 he joined the Society of Jesus, after a two years' novitiate, passed mostly at Tournay.

Membership of the corps is gained after a somewhat trying novitiate, but is the only passport to the various social and sports societies.

His novitiate was marked by a fervour of humility.

There was a novitiate of three years, during which the intending member was tested as to his fitness for entering the society.

Two slight innovations were introduced: the minimum age of an abbess was fixed at sixty, and the period of novitiate was prolonged from one year to two.

Among other buildings and institutions are a novitiate of Marist Fathers, a science and art school, a pier with pavilion and concert rooms, and a yacht club.

The old infirmary building is now occupied by St Joseph's College, a commercial academy of the Marist Brotherhood, in connexion with which there is a novitiate for the training of members of the order for missionary service at home or abroad.

These various members of the Society are distributed in its novitiate houses, its colleges, its professed houses and its mission residences.

A novitiate had to be passed, and young boys were to be educated in the monastery, but were not expected to become monks.

His earliest extant performances, in considerable number, are at Cortona, whither he was sent during his novitiate, and here apparently he spent all the opening years of his monastic life.

Selmi in 1864 proves that he was at this time so far attracted towards a religious life as to have joined the novitiate; but his father, who had other designs for him, seized the opportunity of an attack of ophthalmia to withdraw him permanently from the care of the monks.

This glade can seldom be reached until she candidate is in his forty-fifth year, which involves a probaLion of thirty-one years in the case of those who have entered on the novitiate at the earliest legal age.

Synonyms:

period of time, period, noviciate, time period,

Antonyms:

downtime, regulation time, day, night, time off,