seminarian

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

Word Origin

seminarian (n.)
"seminary student," 1580s, from seminary + -ian.

Example

1. We mean a journey of faith in which a seminarian experiences a joyous response to god 's call through the process of discernment , human and spiritual development .
2. A friend , j. pius barbour , remembered the young seminarian arguing on behalf of gandhian methods with a reckoning based on arithmetic-that any minority would be outnumbered if it turned to a policy of violence-rather than on principle .

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