Definitions for pastorate

pastorate pas·tor·ate

Spelling: [pas-ter-it, pah-ster-]
IPA: /ˈpæs tər ɪt, ˈpɑ stər-/

Pastorate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 548 anagrams from letters in pastorate (aaeoprstt).

Definitions for pastorate

noun

  1. the office or term of office of a pastor.
  2. a body of pastors.
  3. parsonage (def 1).

Origin of pastorate

1785-95; Medieval Latin pāstōrātus, equivalent to Latin pāstōr-, stem of pāstor (see pastor) + -ātus -ate3<

Examples for pastorate

But humility is not a grace of the pulpit and the pastorate only.

He came out from Holland in 1677 and returned to a pastorate there in 1685.

It was one Sunday evening, shortly after he had assumed the pastorate of the church.

But of such difficulties the record of his pastorate gives no indication.

It is a primary duty of the busy but patient work of the pastorate.

He insisted on his father's return to his pastorate—which he did at the end of the week.

This pastorate he held for thirty-two years, till the day of his death.

After the close of my pastorate in Kensington, Ealing became my home.

When my father returned from the funeral he resigned his pastorate.

That is to say, the Christian Ministry is above all things a pastorate.

Word Value for pastorate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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