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noun

Novice n.

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. "I am young; a novice in the trade."

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

(Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. "No poore cloisterer, nor no novys."

adjective

Novice adj. Like a novice; becoming a novice. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Novice" Quotes from Famous Books

... the office that night, and he had the money—a week's miserable pittance—in his pocket. His every action revealed the fact that he was a novice in recklessness. His innocent face piqued the men within. They gave him a welcome that amazed him. Of course the rest of the evening was a chaos to him. The throat down which he poured the liquor was ...

— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... looked at him with her eyes full of thought. She was not a novice in life though she was so young. She had heard many a tale not adapted for youthful ears. That a child might have a father whose name she did not bear and who had never been disclosed to her was not incomprehensible, as it would have been to an English girl. She looked him severely in the face, ...

— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant

... myself such a mere novice in matters of etiquette, that I should not place the least confidence in my own judgment on such a point, but should readily submit to yours, if I had not this morning consulted my uncle Tom, who gave the same opinion which I had previously formed. I have ...

— Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) - From the Original Family Documents • Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

... No stranger or novice should try to run the White Horse Rapids alone in a boat. He should let his boat drop down the river guided by a rope with which he has provided himself in his outfit and which should be 150 feet long. It would ...

— Klondyke Nuggets - A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest • Joseph Ladue

... sweeter for the theft, And burning blushes, though for no transgression, Tremblings when met, and restlessness when left; All these are little preludes to possession, Of which young Passion cannot be bereft, And merely tend to show how greatly Love is Embarrassed at first starting with a novice. ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

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