rectorate
Noun
Meaning
The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
rectorship
chancellery
deanery
bishopric
lordship
magistracy
leadership
presidency
chair
aristocracy
dictatorship
mastery
chairmanship
archbishopric
mastership
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His resignation from the rectorate owed more to his frustration as an administrator than to any principled opposition to the Nazis.
From 1558 to 1574 he was dean of the theological faculty and repeatedly held the rectorate of the university.
He resigned the rectorate in April 1934, but remained a member of the Nazi Party until 1945 even though (as Julian Young asserts) the Nazis eventually prevented him from publishing.