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metropolitanate en · NOUN

Etymology

From metropolitan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).

Meanings

1. The see of a metropolitan bishop.
   • that ascending ladder of ecclesiastical honours , the priorate , the abbacy , the bishopric , the metropolitanate , the cardinalate , and even that which was beyond and above all . 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:

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