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postulant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | petitioner, requester, suppliant, supplicant |
Examples of postulant
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The postulant year gets the incoming sisters accustomed to life at the convent.
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A postulant is a person who is merely requesting admission to the novitiate.
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As the high-spirited postulant Maria, Casey Erin Clark gives an engaging performance.
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The postulant is startled, but quickly smitten with Lancelot, as Lancelot is with her.
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As a postulant, the man is not bound by any vows, and is free to leave the monastery at any time.
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Now, she is one of them, playing a postulant in the show.
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When her law school classmates took a two-week Christmas break, she took a two-year postulant break at the convent.
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She took the necessary steps to enter the community and was accepted as a postulant in the fall of 1964, at age 18.
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Afterward, the woman donned the gray woolen habit with a white veil, signaling that she is a postulant, or a first-year member.
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- One submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
- A postulant (from the Latin postulare, to ask) was originally one who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate. ...
- A person who submits a petition; a petitioner; A person seeking admission to a religious order
- A postulant, sometimes also known as a pre-novice, is a person preparing to be admitted as a novice into a religious community.
- An individual seeking to enter a religious order
- The first formal stage of becoming a consecrated religious is called a postulant. The postulancy stage usually takes six months to a year.
- A person who has applied to join a religious order and is waiting to be admitted.
- A person who has been accepted by the bishop as a candidate for ordination, and is in the process of being trained.
