retreatant

American  

[ri-treet-nt] / rɪˈtrit nt /

noun

1. a person who takes part in a religious retreat.

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Etymology

Origin of retreatant

First recorded in 1875–80; retreat + -ant

Example Sentences

"There's always someone who leaves," says Jack Pannell, a press aide to Georgia Congressman John Lewis and a five-year retreatant.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can promise you at once that as a retreatant, you will not be bound to lead the life of a Trappist in its austerest sense.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Then they told him that a retreatant would communicate and he answered 'Just so, I shall communicate him.'

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)