postulant

If that all goes well, three months later, she enters the postulant stage, at which she can start wearing the makeup but is not yet given a veil.

If that all goes well, three months later, she enters the postulant stage, at which she can start wearing the makeup but is not yet given a veil.

Alex takes his hand, and Henry turns to face the chapel like a nervous postulant, his cheeks hollowed out in the low light, before pulling Alex into it.

She had already been there four years, arriving at age 20 and spending the first six months as a postulant before becoming a novice nun.

While a postulant at the convent, she began to have seizures.