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  • noun Plural form of praetorian.

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Examples

  • her rap last night was pretty shameless but the praetorians are a prideful egomaniacal bunch.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2005

  • Whelan is one of the oldest Brown praetorians, who had to resign as his spin doctor after helping bring down Peter Mandelson (who loathes him).

    Charlie Whelan’s war 2010

  • Therefore he resolved to call upon Caesar early, straight after the praetorians.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Farther along I saw Catilina fling himself down on one of the front benches reserved for praetorians, his powerful arms spread wide, his long legs outstretched.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • For the commission and its ideological praetorians, the path of history is preordained.

    Filling the Democracy Gap Robin Shepherd 2009

  • Funny at times. other times I feel like an early Christian hiding out from the praetorians.

    Sound Politics: Signs that your newspaper suffers from liberal bias (I) 2006

  • The praetorians and barbarians already know this and are shouting their chants and bloody war cries.

    The Great Pyramids 2008

  • After his reign they became praetorians and led to the downfall of the Abbasides.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Indeed it was an uncommonly bad year for the rightical chic ideologues, the men-MUST-fit-the-mold types and the praetorians.

    The Chimes at Midnight 2007

  • After all there is little else he can do, his policy is "Drill, Invade and toss choice cuts out of the public treasury to his monied supporters and sundry praetorians."

    The Chimes at Midnight 2006

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