professoriateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

professoriate (複数形 professoriates)

1. Professors considered as a group or body.
   • 1850, “Report of the Adjourned Debate in the House of Commons on the English Universities” in The North British Review, Volume 14, p. 183,^[1]

     A satirical work, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell how far to believe its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have taken place in order to account for the discredit into which the Professoriate fell, and from which it can scarcely be said to have recovered.

   • 1914, Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, New York: John Lane, Chapter 3, pp. 96-97,^[2]

     […] at that moment the whole professoriate was absorbed in one of those great educational crises which from time to time shake a university to its base.

   • 2012, Science, Technology & Human Values‎^[3], volume 38, page 126-149:

     Technological Change and Professional Control in the Professoriate.