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postulancy

postulancy noun: the role or status of a postulant.

Noun

postulancy (countable and uncountable, plural postulancies)

  1. The role or status of a postulant.
    • After their six-month postulancies are over and they have mastered all the chants and books of monastic regulations, the postulants are finally ready to ordain as novice monks […]2020, Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience, page 81

Forms of postulancy

pluralpostulancies

Questions about postulancy

What does postulancy mean?
Postulancy means the role or status of a postulant.
What part of speech is postulancy?
Postulancy is a noun.
What is the plural of postulancy?
The plural of postulancy is postulancies.

Words near postulancy in the dictionary

  1. posttumor
  2. posttussive
  3. posttympanic
  4. posttyphoid
  5. postulancies
  6. postulancy
  7. postulant
  8. postulants
  9. postulata
  10. postulate
  11. postulated

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