uninitiate
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edituninitiate (plural uninitiates)
- One who has not been initiated; an outsider.
- Synonym: exoteric
- 1907, Alfred Cort Haddon, “The Religion of the Torres Straits Islanders”, in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor:
- This mystery was too sacred to be imparted to uninitiates.
- One who is not experienced.