pastorate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From pastor + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a body of people involved with it).

There is also a native Pastorate of 1100 ordained men, with a total Indian agency of 26,000 men and women. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones
Mr. Bently had been in Deerwood for eight years, but he had not sought out Roaring Abel since the first three months of his pastorate. — The Blue Castle: a novel, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
It will surprise him, and I think it will be the first present of any size that he has received in his pastorate of over forty years. — Cast Upon the Breakers, Horatio, Jr. Alger

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