postulant

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postulant

/ˈpɒstjʊlənt/ UK
/ˈpɒstʃʊlənt/ UK

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From French postulant, present participle of postuler.

noun postulants

A person seeking admission to a religious order. 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 […]
A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner. 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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@misc{postulant_2026,
  title = {postulant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/postulant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}