Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a tribune; a tribunate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or power of a tribune.
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- noun historical The office of
tribune - noun historical The period in which a person serves as
tribune
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- noun the position of tribune
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the time of Trajan, it was doubtful whether the tribuneship was an office or a name, (Plin.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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NEPOS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother of Celer and brother-in-law of Pompey, who sends him back from his legateship in the East to stand for the tribuneship and guard his interests in Rome
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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Nor does anyone love Caesar himself unless in some way Caesar is a person of great merit; but we love wealth, a tribuneship, a praetorship, a consulship.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Nor does anyone love Caesar himself unless in some way Caesar is a person of great merit; but we love wealth, a tribuneship, a praetorship, a consulship.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Only that summer he had secured a tribuneship for his crony Gabinius: he still kept a hand in politics.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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The moment you lose the legal immunity conferred by your tribuneship, the aristocrats will have you in court and fighting for your life.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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In other words, the tribuneship was designed to be a political dead end—a place to confine the ranting and the rancorous, the incompetent and the unpromotable: the effluent of the body politic.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Sura, and various candidates for the tribuneship whose names will be familiar to you.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Octavius had refused, whereupon Gracchus had “called upon the gods to witness that he did not willingly wish to remove his colleague,” had balloted the eighteenth tribe, and achieved a majority, and Octavius had been stripped of his tribuneship “reduced to the rank of a private citizen, he departed unobserved”.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Copy down everything relating to the tribuneship of Tiberius Gracchus and his agrarian bill.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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