Meaning of professorialism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The manners or habits of a professor.
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2. The state of being a professor; professorship.
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3. The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
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Examples

“Another class there is who may receive⟳ profit from our humble efforts, and find⟳ their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find⟳ it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress⟳ cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours.”

“Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn⟳ from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years.”

“In the interests of academic egalitarianism we decided to approach⟳ scholars nearer the beginnings than the ends of their careers: we wanted to encourage⟳ free exchange⟳ rather than de-haut en-bas professorialism.”

“I don't want⟳ to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end⟳ of the ladder I've been on for the last⟳ fifteen years.”

“I determined to observe⟳ Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.”

“The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle .”

“His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have⟳ been maintained ever since .”

“The point⟳ is though that (this is at least my impression) this sort⟳ of themes and this sort⟳ of humor give⟳ some flavor of 'professorialism', or even 'easy professorialism' I would say⟳ to Anonym's epigrams which is wholly absent in Luxorius.”

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