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emerita

[ih-mer-i-tuh]

adjective

  1. (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

plural

emeritae 
  1. a woman with such status.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of emerita1

< Latin, feminine of ŧٳܲ emeritus
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Walz said House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband were killed.

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As Anne Benvenuti, a professor emerita of Psychology and Philosophy at Cerro Coso Community College in California, put it in a 2016 paper in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, "While convergent research on animal cognition, emotion, and behavior has increasingly pointed in the direction of animal “personhood,” interdisciplinary research in human cognition has simultaneously confirmed Sigmund Freud's hypothesis that not only are human beings not always self-aware and rational, but also the human unconscious mind motivates much of human behavior; and that human consciousness is fragmented at best."

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“I’m someone who knows a lot of people in this field,” said Helen Tager-Flusberg, professor emerita at Boston University and director of its Center for Autism Research Excellence, and “not a single person I know has been approached.”

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While some cardinals will think the most important part is following divine guidance, others will have anxiety over making a quick decision, says Tina Beattie, professor emerita of Catholic studies at the University of Roehampton.

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Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., proposed a bill to axe Musk’s lucrative federal contracts at SpaceX earlier this week, while Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi filed legislation to protect taxpayer data from Musk’s reach.

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