Supplicants are Aunts in training, usually teenagers, who have not yet completed their Pearl Girl mission.
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Supplicants Term Timeline in The Testaments
The timeline below shows where the term Supplicants appears in The Testaments. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6: The Ardua Hall Holograph
...phrase, which means nothing but inspires obedient repetition of it. The hymns that three young Supplicants now sing were also written by Lydia, not to be beautiful or inspirational, but to...
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Chapter 34: The Ardua Hall Holograph
...and then the Founders would make their decision, at which point Becka would be a Supplicant Aunt until she served her mission as a Pearl Girl. Becka eagerly accepted all of...
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Chapter 39
Becka explains that she has made it through her probation and become a Supplicant Aunt, and in nine years she’ll become a Pearl Girl. Probation is not so hard,...
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Chapter 46: The Ardua Hall Holograph
...each man to death and literally tear their bodies to pieces. All of the Aunts, Supplicants, and new Pearls are there to watch, and Aunt Immortelle (Becka) feints as she watches...
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Chapter 49
...it is perfectly clean. Even so, she passes her six-month trial and becomes a full Supplicant, which grants her access to Ardua Hall’s library and even the Reading Room, where Agnes...
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