rectorate

American  

[rek-ter-it] / ˈrɛk tər ɪt /

Or rectorship

noun

1. the office, dignity, or term of a rector.

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Etymology

Origin of rectorate

1715–25; < Medieval Latin rēctōrātus office of rector, equivalent to Latin rēctōr- (stem of rēctor ) rector + -ātus -ate ³

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Example Sentences

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rectorate

In Shkodra, students at the foreign languages faculty gathered in front of the rectorate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Last January, when Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, was named to the see from the rectorate of an old-folks home, hardly anyone knew who he was.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appleton Lawrence got his first cure in 1913, as assistant in Grace Church in Lawrence, Mass., where his forebears had owned mills and where his father held his first and only rectorate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now Leonard had found occasion to go West for a time, though he still held his office; and Arthur was filling the rectorate almost in the old first way.

From Bylow Hill by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn

At the head of a German university stands the rector, or more commonly, the prorector, since the rectorate is generally retained by the sovereign princes in their own hands, as is the case in Baden.

From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

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