professordom

English

Etymology

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.