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  • noun Plural form of proconsulate.

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Examples

  • For the writer of this epitaph counted his two proconsulates as well as his five consulates.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • The writer of the inscription has added to Marcellus’s five consulates, his two proconsulates.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • A demand is made, furthermore, for the reintegration of the Twenty-two, the abolition of the revolutionary tribunal, the suppression of absolute proconsulates, the organization of a department guard for securing the future of the Convention, the discharge of the revolutionary army, etc.] [Footnote 1113: Moniteur, XVII.,

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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