How To Use Postulant In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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.
The White Sister
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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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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.
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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
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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
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In order to be accepted as a postulant in a religious community, I must be free of all financial obligations.
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On entering the order, postulants spend much of the first year in Killarney, with periods in the Franciscans' base in Osterley in England.
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A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.
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In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
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To become a Theravadin monk a postulant shaves his head and beard and adopts the yellow robes of the monk.
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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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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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The attractionThat desire is what drew first-year postulant Sister Zandra Man into the order.
Younger Catholic Women Get into the Habit
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The discussion concerns postulants and candidates for holy orders, more particularly those who aspire to ordained ministry as vocational or permanent deacons.
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Entrance into these communities became contingent on wealth as nunneries demanded that postulants provide dowries.
Christianity Today
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The priest shall be known as a Postulant until his reception into the Fraternity.
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Four of the postulants have had marriages that ended in annulment; two never married.
Women of God
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If satisfied, the officiating abbot admits the postulant.
