rectorate
noun
the office, dignity, or term of a rector.
Example Sentences
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Another legacy of the late Harper’s rectorship was expanding access to worship at St. John’s, which had no Black members in 1960, according to Grimmett.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
But since the death last February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell.
From Time Magazine Archive
He received the same honour from Edinburgh in 1882, and from St. Andrews in 1893, the first year of his rectorship.
From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by David Hunter Blair
