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praetorship

praetorship

See also: prætorship

English

Alternative forms

prætorship (obsolete)
pretorship

Noun

praetorship ‎(plural praetorships)

(Roman historical) The office or term of a praetor. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.28:
  The same night, wherein the Pretorship was refused him, he passed over in play.