postulancy
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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 […]