The period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order).

synonym: noviciate.

Roget 539: learning; acquisition of knowledge etc. 490, acquisition of skill etc. 698; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry etc. 451.    apprenticeship, prenticeship^†; pupilage, pupilarity^†; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation.    docility etc. (willingness) 602; aptitude etc. 698.    ... show more

Roget 673: preparation; providing etc. v.; provision, providence; anticipation etc. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation^†, predisposition; forecast etc. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation.    [Putting in order] arrangement etc. 60; clearance; adjustment etc. 23; tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.    ripening etc. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.    groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold etc. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage [Fr.].    [Preparation of men] training etc. (education) 537; inurement etc. (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking [Preparation of food], cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, [Preparation of the soil], sowing; semination^†, cultivation.    [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].    [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier [Fr.], avant-coureur [Fr.]; voortrekker [Afrik.]; sappers and miners, pavior^†, navvy^†; packer, stevedore; warming pan.    ... show more

Dutch: noviciaat
Polish: probacja, nowicjat

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows.

synonym: novice.

Dutch: beginneling, beginnelinge
Polish: probant, nowicjusz