01 n. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
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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.” — Dryden.
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One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
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One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.(Eccl.)“No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.” — Chaucer.