rectorship

From rector + -ship.

rectorship (plural rectorships)

1. The office or rank of a rector.

   Synonym: rectorate

   Coordinate terms: curateship, curacy, parsonship, parsonhood, vicarship, vicarage, priestship, priesthood

2. (obsolete) Government; guidance.

   Coordinate terms: mentorship, proctorage, preceptorship

• “rectorship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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