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Postulant

noun
1.
One submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order.





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"Postulant" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the congregation could tell; but many surmised that she must be some young postulant of St. Rosalie, just beginning, or about to begin, ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... the good God. But the ritual of the fourth grade is innocent in its character when compared with the abominations of the fifth degree of Templar-Mistress. The central point of the ceremonial is the resurrection of Lazarus, which is symbolically accomplished by the postulant suffering what is termed the ordeal of the Pastos, that is to say, by means of public fornication. The purpose of this ordeal is to show that the sacred act of physical generation is the key to the mystery of being. ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite


Words linked to "Postulant" :   petitioner, supplicant, suppliant, requester


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