Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or state of being a probationer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a probationer; novitiate.
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- noun The state of being a
probationer ;novitiate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These were: Mr. Henry Silver, In August, 1857; C.arles Keene, F.bruary, 1860 (after a nine years 'probationership); Mr.F. C. Burnand, June, 1863; Mr. G.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Inscribed "Samuel Butler for probationership, December 28th 1868."
The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge Henry Festing Jones 1889
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He had graduated at St. Andrews in 1654, and after some years of schoolmastering [11] and probationership he was, in 1664, duly admitted on the new Black
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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a ward, and that ward was not the one where Effie was to serve her probationership.
A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884
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