postulant

How To Use postulant In A Sentence

• There was a regular queue of postulants to see this heavenly Eastern houri and buy her confection, which is very like Scotch butter-cake, but not so digestible; and even more filling at the price. The Martian
• So there are hundreds or even thousands of postulants, novices, seminarians, active priests, and retired priests who live, work, or hang out at American seminaries.
• 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. The White Sister
• 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
• So there are hundreds or even thousands of postulants, novices, seminarians, active priests, and retired priests who live, work, or hang out at American seminaries.
• Ac postea saepius eadem postulanti fertur dixisse, ne festinaret abire; satis mature illum cum filio suo consulatum petiturum. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
• I've never set eyes on her since she went off to Toronto as a postulant at La Sagesse and that's - oh, ages ago! ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
• In order to be accepted as a postulant in a religious community, I must be free of all financial obligations.
• On entering the order, postulants spend much of the first year in Killarney, with periods in the Franciscans' base in Osterley in England.
• A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.