Definitions

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  • noun the office of praetor

Etymologies

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From praetor +‎ -ship.

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Examples

  • As a final humiliation, any senator who became a tribune was automatically disqualified from standing for senior office—that is, the praetorship or the consulship.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • As a final humiliation, any senator who became a tribune was automatically disqualified from standing for senior office—that is, the praetorship or the consulship.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • This, indeed, in the times of the emperors, was almost the sole business of the praetors, whose dignity, as Tacitus expresses it, consisted in the idle trappings of state; whence Boethius justly terms the praetorship "an empty name, and a grievous burthen on the senatorian rank."

    The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • Now several praetorships being vacant, it was all men’s opinion, that that of the chiefest dignity, which is called the praetorship of the city, would be conferred either upon Brutus or

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • So early in her praetorship, he could not know what kind of a leader she would be for the Romulan people, but he thought that she would be a good one.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • So early in her praetorship, he could not know what kind of a leader she would be for the Romulan people, but he thought that she would be a good one.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Spock had even heard some calls for the institution of some form of bipartite praetorship, but that seemed to him both unworkable and unlikely.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Her hair had grayed considerably since she had seized the praetorship, but it suited her, her quiet maturity lending her an air of confidence and authority.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Her hair had grayed considerably since she had seized the praetorship, but it suited her, her quiet maturity lending her an air of confidence and authority.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Spock had even heard some calls for the institution of some form of bipartite praetorship, but that seemed to him both unworkable and unlikely.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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