praetorship

or pre·tor·ship

[ pree-ter-ship ]

noun

1. the office of a praetor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of praetorship¹

First recorded in 1535–45; praetor + -ship

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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