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Ordinand

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Ecclesiastical A person who is a candidate for ordination.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A candidate for ordination

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One about to be ordained.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One about to be ordained or to receive orders.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a person being ordained

Word Usage

"The deliverance ministry has grown considerably in England, in recent decades, both among laity (as in the deliverance ministry support group I belong to, in my diocese) and among clergy (dioceses now have deliverance teams, and deliverance training, I understand, is returning to ordinand training programmes)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

clergyman man of the cloth reverend