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  • noun Plural form of novice.

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Examples

  • The dress of the novices is the same, only that the veil is white.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • The only attitude to take, Bunker tells novices, is to treat a fruit tree like your own child, enjoying every stage of its growth.

    Beyond the McIntosh 2008

  • The only attitude to take, Bunker tells novices, is to treat a fruit tree like your own child, enjoying every stage of its growth.

    Beyond the McIntosh 2008

  • If you’ve ever owned or known anyone who’s owned a salt water aquarium, you know that one of the biggest maintenance challenges, especially for novices, is keeping pH levels in proper equilibrium.

    Ocean Acidification: Another Carbon Challenge | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • It quotes the words of Pope Benedict XIV: "Some priests who are at first admirable directors of souls later lose their previous knowledge of moral theology, by neglect of study. so that from being masters of the science they can scarcely be called novices in it, since they retain only confused and imperfect recollections of its first rudiments."

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The dress of the novices is the same, only that the veil is white.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

  • Others grumbled that trained journalists had lost out on news positions to big-name novices like Ms. Clinton; Jenna Bush Hager, another former first daughter, who is a "Today" show correspondent; and Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, who is an MSNBC contributor.

    NYT > Home Page By AMY CHOZICK 2011

  • This is palpably evident from I Timothy iii., for what divine among us, writing of episcopal proprieties, would think of saying that bishops "must not be given to wine," must be "no strikers," and must not be "novices"?

    On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

  • Though none of the Twelve had received a liberal education, [42: 2] it cannot be said that they were literally "novices" when invested with the ministerial commission.

    The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

  • He said he thought the debate had demonstrated Gordon Brown's statesmanship, in comparison to the two contenders whom the Prime Minister has referred to as "novices".

    icLiverpool 2010

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