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emeritate

emeritate noun: the act of becoming, or status of being emeritus or emerita.

Noun

emeritate (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The act of becoming, or status of being emeritus or emerita.
    • Shortly after his arrival Dr. J. P. Lotsy took over the directorate of the Herbarium. Both institutions went very much their own way, but not before Janse had become the founder of our present Laboratory (1907-1908), which was the first modern Botanical Laboratory in our country. Professor Janse...1938, H. Veendorp, L. G. M. Baas Becking, Hortus academicus Lugduno-Batavus, 1587-1937
    • Throughout his professional career he was associated with the university of his native city: Assistant (1951-1965; with an interruption, 1961-1963, when he worked at the Gibbs Laboratories, Yale University, USA), Lecturer (1965), Assistant Professor (1965-1973), Full Professor at the Faculty of...1998, Notulae Odonatologicae, volumes 5-6, page 67

Examples of emeritate in a sentence

  • Witte obtained his emeritate in the autumn of that year.1938, H. Veendorp, L. G. M. Baas Becking, Hortus academicus Lugduno-Batavus, 1587-1937:
  • After his retirement, he was awarded an emeritate professorship at the Department of Biological Engineering.1998, Notulae Odonatologicae, volumes 5-6, page 67:
  • He was appointed for Yogyakarta (1904), Batavia (1905), and after his emeritate placed in Muntilan (1912), where he died on 1 March 1927.2003, Karel Steenbrink, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Leiden), Catholics in Indonesia: 1808-1942 : a documented...

Origin of emeritate

From emeritus + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Questions about emeritate

What does emeritate mean?
Emeritate means the act of becoming, or status of being emeritus or emerita.
How do you use emeritate in a sentence?
Witte obtained his emeritate in the autumn of that year.
What part of speech is emeritate?
Emeritate is a noun.

Words near emeritate in the dictionary

  1. emerised
  2. emerises
  3. emerising
  4. emerita
  5. emeritae
  6. emeritate
  7. emerited
  8. emeriti
  9. emeritum
  10. emeritus
  11. emerituses

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