praetorship
See also: prætorship
English
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edit- prætorship (obsolete)
- pretorship
Etymology
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editpraetorship (plural praetorships)
- (history) The office or term of a praetor. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- The same night, wherein the Pretorship was refused him, he passed over in play.