Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.
- noun A candidate for admission into a religious order.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which postulates, demands, or asks; specifically, a candidate for membership in a religious order during the period preparatory to his admission into the novitiate; in the American Episcopal Church, an applicant for admission to candidateship for the ministry, not yet received as candidate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Christianity A person seeking
admission to areligious order - noun A person who submits a
petition for something; apetitioner .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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The fact that there is no such law is itself the reason why neither a man nor a woman is permitted nowadays to take permanent vows until after a considerable period of probation, first as a 'postulant' and then as a novice.
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The attractionThat desire is what drew first-year postulant Sister Zandra Man into the order.
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The attractionThat desire is what drew first-year postulant Sister Zandra Man into the order.
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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Marla Mindelle plays the postulant who is supposed to wow us with her voice, but she too sounds pinched in the upper register, so you can never relax during her big solo number "The Life I Never Led."
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Born Yesterday" Surprises; "Sister Act" Begs Your Indulgence
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin."
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
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Marla Mindelle plays the postulant who is supposed to wow us with her voice, but she too sounds pinched in the upper register, so you can never relax during her big solo number "The Life I Never Led."
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Born Yesterday" Surprises; "Sister Act" Begs Your Indulgence
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In Tibet, law of the monastery proclaims that postulant monks shall seek admission only in their respective monastic sections.
Contemporary Scholars - The 100th Ganden Tripa (Ganden Throneholder)
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