Meanings
- uncountableThe realm or sphere of professors; professors, collectively.
Another, the fifth, year of professordom is expiring this week.
1989, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, page 1072 more examples
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 Germany.
1913, James McKeen Cattell, University control, page 457For 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.
2002, Stephen Henighan, When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, page 109
Origin
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