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- noun Plural form of
postulant .
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Examples
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But some Catholic orders in the United States are successfully attracting new members, called postulants.
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They were even able to put a name or two to those faces, by waiting at the entrance and listening carefully while these "postulants" talked among themselves.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Those who desired to embrace the monastic state spent one year as "postulants",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Who's the patron saint of disappointed postulants?
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Who's the patron saint of disappointed postulants? ...
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Still, postulants do spend a lot of time in devotions, in the classroom and doing chores.
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But some Catholic orders in the United States are successfully attracting new members, called postulants.
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Still, postulants do spend a lot of time in devotions, in the classroom and doing chores.
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Potential postulants see "young vibrant women, obviously happy with what they're doing" at St. Cecilia's and other growing orders, said Mary Gautier, senior research associate at CARA.
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Catherine Mooney, a professor at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, who's written about women's religious life, said one possible reason behind the thriving orders 'success is many postulants grew up when Pope John Paul II was in the Vatican and may be influenced by his more traditional views.
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