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
My rectorship, since 1893, represents a period of extraordinary transition in this part of the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Aberdeen University again conferred upon him the honour of the lord rectorship in 1888, and he received a similar honour from the University of Edinburgh in 1890.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
