Definition of "ordinand" [or•di•nand]

• Ecclesiastical A person who is a candidate for ordination. (noun)

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• "The deliverance ministry has grown considerably in England, in recent decades, both among laity (as in the deliverance ministry support group I belong to, in my diocese) and among clergy (dioceses now have deliverance teams, and deliverance training, I understand, is returning to ordinand training programmes)."
• "For others such as Kat Campion-Spall – a 33-year-old ordinand who will be priested this September and who has argued for the Code of Practice at Synod – the issue is one of the church's credibility."
• "What then worst for you, who then of it fishery ordinand."