presentee

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person formally presented or nominated for an office, benefice, award, or other position

   The bishop examined the presentee before admitting him to the parish benefice.

Formed from present + -ee, the suffix marking a person who receives or undergoes an action. In ecclesiastical law, a presentee was the person whom a patron formally nominated to a benefice.

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