postulancy
English
Noun
postulancy (countable and uncountable, plural postulancies)
- The role or status of a postulant.
- 2020, Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience (page 81)
- 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)