postulants in English

noun
1
a candidate, especially one seeking admission into a religious order.
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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Below are sample sentences containing the word "postulants" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "postulants", or refer to the context using the word "postulants" in the English Dictionary.

1. As postulants, the strictest silence was imposed upon us.

2. Superiors sent Rendu postulants and young Sisters to train.

3. You will be a splendid example for our postulants and novices here.