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postulant

/pos-chuh-luhnt/US // ˈpɒs tʃə lənt //UK // (ˈpɒstjʊlənt) //

后进生,后学者,后生,后补人员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
    • : a person who asks or applies for something.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as innovice

Examples

  • He spoke to the postulant alone, praising the august and humble life of the cloister.

  • Jephthah regarded his postulant daughter-in-law from under lowered, bushy brows.

  • There are degrees in the struggle for saintliness; the journalist was but a postulant.

  • The ministrant addressed the postulant, “Brother, dost thou wish to give thyself to our faith?”

  • Lupo agnum eripere postulant—They insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf.