confirmand

plural confirmands

1. lifestyleA candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.

   These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.

   2009, Michael J. Coyner, The Race to Reach Out: Connecting Newcomers to Christ in a New Century

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   The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.

   1868, Isaac Mayer Wise, Hymns, Psalms and Prayers, page 203

   In confirmation the confirmand confesses his faith and expresses a willingness to accept and obey Jesus Christ as his Lord; and the Christian Church confirms the worthiness of the confirmand to partake of the fellowship and heavenly blessings which this new relation called church-membership involves.

   1917 March 25, “Showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ”, in The Evangelical Herald, volume 16, page 83