tribuneship

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tribuneship (countable and uncountable, plural tribuneships)

(historical) The office of tribune
- 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book IV‎^[1]:
  But the burgesses acquitted him; and now he too threw down the gauntlet, became a candidate for the tribuneship of the people, and was nominated to that office for the year 631 in an elective assembly attended by unusual numbers.
(historical) The period in which a person serves as tribune
- 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II.‎^[2]:
  The crimes which had disgraced the stormy tribuneship of Shaftesbury had been fearfully expiated.
- 1880, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Young Folks' History of Rome‎^[3]:
  He also wanted to found a colony of plebeians on the ruins of Carthage, and when his tribuneship was over he went to Africa to see about it; but when he came home the patricians had arranged an attack on him, and he was insulted by the lictor of the consul Opimius.