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rabbinates

rabbinates is the plural of rabbinate.

Meaning of rabbinate

Noun

rabbinate (countable and uncountable, plural rabbinates)

  1. The office or function of a rabbi.
    • Adam [...] thought the call to the rabbinate should be entirely pure, a discussion a man has with God.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 201
  2. A body of rabbis.
    • The Rabbinate now uses computers to keep lists of women without proper religious divorces (a get) and children born to women without them (mamzerim) -- who are without status under Jewish law.1989 April 8, Jon David Aloisi-Nalley, “Israeli Legislator Addresses NYC Gay Synagogue”, in Gay Community News, page 7
  3. Rabbis collectively.

Questions about rabbinates

What is rabbinates the plural of?
Rabbinates is the plural of rabbinate.

Words near rabbinates in the dictionary

  1. rabbidom
  2. Rabbie
  3. rabbies
  4. rabbin
  5. rabbinate
  6. rabbinates
  7. rabbinic
  8. Rabbinic Judaism
  9. rabbinica
  10. rabbinical
  11. rabbinically

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