postulant

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.