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Licensure vs Licentiate - What's the difference?

licensure | licentiate |

As nouns the difference between licensure and licentiate

is that licensure is the act of conferring a license for an activity while licentiate is a person who holds the academic degree of license.

licensure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of conferring a license for an activity
  • The condition of being licensed

    • licentiate

    English

    (wikipedia licentiate)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who holds the academic degree of license.
  • One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
    • a licentiate in medicine or theology
  • * Johnson
    • The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates , to give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor.
  • A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
    • (Chaucer)
  • One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
    • (Bishop Hall)