gaonate

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Gaon +‎ -ate (forming nouns denoting rank or office).

Noun

gaonate (plural gaonates)

  1. (historical, Judaism) The rank or office of Gaon.
    • 1998, Robert Brody, The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture, page 77:
      The interlocking relationships between the Geonate and the Exilarchate are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the role played by each institution in selecting or deposing the head of the other — what might be described as a primitive version of the system of checks and balances.
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