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praetorship

or pre·tor·ship

[ pree-ter-ship ]

noun

  1. the office of a praetor.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of praetorship1

First recorded in 1535–45; praetor + -ship
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Example Sentences

The quaestorship might be spent in one, the praetorship and the consulship were sure to be followed by a year abroad.

The night that he was denied the praetorship he spent in play; that wherein he was to die he spent in reading.

Curule aediles were instituted at the same time as the praetorship, and continued throughout the Republic.

Caius Calpurnius, having his command continued to him for a year after the expiration of his praetorship, was sent into Etruria.

No one could be Praetor without having first been Quaestor, or Consul without having held the praetorship.

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