Meaning of postulant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person seeking admission to a religious order.
2. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.

Equivalents

Examples

“After their six-month postulancies are over and they have mastered all the chants and books of monastic regulations, the postulants are finally ready to ordain as novice monks […]”

“But when the three postulants returned with Sabine it was clear that the results had been far from satisfactory, perhaps because of the massive potations of the old lady.”

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