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Rectorship   Listen
noun
Rectorship  n.  
1.
Government; guidance. (Obs.) "The rectorship of judgment."
2.
The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.





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"Rectorship" Quotes from Famous Books



... was founded for the study and discussion of his works,—a most unusual honor for a poet during his lifetime. The leading universities gave him honorary degrees, he was elected life-governor of London University, and was tendered the rectorship of the Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrew's and the presidency of ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... know of no more perfect description of the rector than that. For twenty years and more of his rectorship in this great parish he showed Christ to men; showed Him in the incomparable words that he poured forth Sunday after Sunday and year after year from this pulpit—in his great concern for the men and women and little children; for the strong ...
— Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati • Warren C. Herrick
... a noted historical writer, born in London; graduated at Cambridge, and after serving as chaplain to Lord Cobham, received the rectorship of Radwinter, in Essex; subsequently he became canon of Windsor; his fame rests on two celebrated historical works, "Description of England," an invaluable picture of social life and institutions in Elizabethan times, and "Description of Britain," ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Rectorship" :   situation, spot, post, billet, berth, office


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