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proˈvincialate
[f. provincial n. 2 + -ate1.]
The office or period of office of a provincial; ecclesiastical headship.
1906Tablet 29 Sept. 482 It was during his Provincialate that the fourth Congregation of Westminster took place. 1911A. Brennan Life St. Lawrence of Brindisi xviii. 179 During his Provincialate the Friars of Piedmont..renewed their petitions. 1930T. S. Westbrook Glimpses Catholic Eng. 70 During the Provincialates of Agnellus..and of his successor Albert of Pisa..the brethren at Oxford lived in the strictest poverty. 1960J. B. Dockery Christopher Davenport viii. 121 During the Provincialate of Sancta Clara the community were well clothed. 1976Oxford Times 3 Dec. 13/3 For the Jesuit student, as later for all his religious brethren during his Provincialate, he came as a breath of fresh air. |