praetorship

American  

[pree-ter-ship] / ˈpri tərˌʃɪp /

Or pretorship

noun

1. the office of a praetor.

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Etymology

Origin of praetorship

First recorded in 1535–45; praetor + -ship

Example Sentences

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praetorship

Ever since the House of Hades when he’d resigned his praetorship, ambrosia and nectar didn’t taste like his favourite foods from Camp Jupiter.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

There was no gainsaying even from Cato, although in the praetorship which he soon after held, he would never mention the title of the other's laws, which were called the "Julian."

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Herbert Baldwin Foster

But how absurd is it for a man to stand for the consulship who cannot be elected praetor! unless, indeed, he thinks his conviction may be taken as an equivalent to the praetorship.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

So another praetorship was given to Cassius; the gaining of which could not so much oblige him, as he was incensed for the loss of the other.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

The year of his praetorship, 66 B.C., is marked by the two orations which are on the whole his greatest, one public and the other private.

From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail