Associations to the word «Postulant»

Wiktionary

POSTULANT, noun. (Christianity) A person seeking admission to a religious order
POSTULANT, noun. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope