novice

novice is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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.

[2] One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Tim. iii. 6.

[3] One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.

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