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

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

After his praetorship he obtained his first independent military command in Farther Spain.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

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 Mackail, J. W. (John William)

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

From the quaestorship the official career of the senator led through the regular magistracies, the aedileship or tribunate, and the praetorship, to the consulship.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly