postulant

• The resting place for relics, saint's bones, last drops of holy blood; in the light the pearls lay smooth, gentle distortion against the glass and she wept, finally, slow tears that ran against her cheeks, crying with her mouth open dull as a cow's and hands palms-up and flat against her legs like a postulant's prayer, the confession of a man on his deathbed, a voice without inflection imbued with flat and terrible haste. —  Omni: July 1994
• "When I was a postulant, the mistress of novices read us the story of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux," she said. —  Spero News
• Entering the abbey as a postulant in March 2007, he was a member of the novitiate class in September. —  Catholic Sentinel -
• On the eve of the day that the postulant was to take the habit, she was presented to the abbess of Bourbourg by the governor of the town. —  En Route
• Then had come her years as a postulant and as a novice. —  The Guests Of Hercules

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