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What is a postulant?

What is a postulant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Christianity) A person seeking admission to a religious order
  2. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.
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The rejected postulant, chopfallen and sullen, repaired to his mother and related his unsuccess.
Mark concerned himself less with his own reception as a postulant.
No one can become a postulant for admission to the Society until fourteen years old, unless by special dispensation.
In order to be accepted as a postulant in a religious community, I must be free of all financial obligations.
In December 1870, he entered the order as a postulant, changing his name to Andre, in honour of his mentor.
She trembled like a postulant when she wrote the Greek alphabet for the first time.

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