Emeritus [adjective]

Definition of Emeritus:

having withdrawn from active life

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Sentence/Example of Emeritus:

Wheeler doesn’t need definitive proof, said Bernard Goldstein, a professor emeritus of environmental and occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh.

There are good reasons for this, according to Per Pinstrup-Andersen, a Danish economist and professor emeritus at Cornell University.

Weber, a professor emeritus at San Diego State University who chaired the school’s Africana studies department, flatly dismissed that argument.

Jones, the lawyer in the lawsuit, and Earl Richardson, president emeritus of Morgan State, co-authored the article.

That is Jerome Kagan, emeritus professor of psychology at Harvard and a pioneer of developmental and personality psychology.

Of this Faculty he became Dean, and held office until close upon the time when he became Emeritus.

Upon retiring from the board of regents, he was made professor emeritus of medicine.

If it will comfort you in the least, make me your Pastor Emeritus, nominally.

He became professor emeritus in 1887, and established a private laboratory at Newport, where he has continued his researches.

From 1869 until 1894, when he resigned and became professor emeritus, he was Pope Professor of Latin in the same institution.