professordom

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English

Etymology

From professor +‎ -dom.

Noun

professordom (uncountable)

  1. The realm or sphere of professors; professors, collectively.
    • 1913, James McKeen Cattell, University control, page 457:
      He thinks that by nursing this gigantic reverence for the idea of professordom, such reverence will, somehow, be extended all over society, till the professor becomes a creature of power, of public notoriety, of independent reputation as he is in Germnay.
    • 1989, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, page 107:
      Another, the fifth, year of professordom is expiring this week.
    • 2002, Stephen Henighan, When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, page 109:
      For this reason, I would like to focus on a chink in the armour of professordom: on one of the facets of literary art to which academics pay insufficient attention.