"postulancy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2020, Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience, page 81",
          "text": "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 […]",
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