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emerita
[ ih-mer-i-tuh ]
adjective
- (of a woman) retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty, but retaining the title of one's office or position:
Kate Johnson, Professor Emerita of Music.
noun
- a woman with such status.
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Example Sentences
She “entered the critical community with something the rest of us don’t have, which is the poet’s sensibility,” said Eleanor Elson Heginbotham, a Dickinson expert and professor emerita at Concordia University Saint Paul in Minnesota.
Lynn Foster, a University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor emerita, said the criminal eviction statute is one of two unique features of Arkansas law that harm tenants.
Alta Charo, a professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin and a member of ISSCR’s steering committee, declined to comment on the content of the new guidelines.
Ana Marie Cox is Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days.
David Broder is, of course, Dean Emerita, but the Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet will probably be taking over the daily duties.
Ana Marie Cox is a Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days.
Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days.
No sooner had the "lady," as Byron was pleased to call her, played her part as decoy, than she was discharged as emerita.
The said Schedelius furthermore setteth downe, that his Emerita martyred in Rhetia.
It was the capital of Lusitania, and was called Emerita Augusta, from the first word of which title comes the present name.
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