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n. A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

n. A candidate for admission into a religious order.

n. A person seeking admission to a religious order

n. A person who submits a petition for something; a petitioner.

n. One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.

n. One who or that which postulates, demands, or asks; specifically, a candidate for membership in a religious order during the period preparatory to his admission into the novitiate; in the American Episcopal Church, an applicant for admission to candidateship for the ministry, not yet received as candidate.

n. one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

"The fact that there is no such law is itself the reason why neither a man nor a woman is permitted nowadays to take permanent vows until after a considerable period of probation, first as a 'postulant' and then as a novice."

requester    petitioner    supplicant    suppliant   

authenticator    game show    office-seeker    proselyte    hissy